“When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don’t put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.”

When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.

The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

Art has an obligation to offend.

As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.

Art should never try to be popular.

I write to find out what I’m talking about.

When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.

Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.

Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.

Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.

Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.

When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.

When you have a well developed body and you’re confident, you see people bending your way, wanting to be on your side, wanting to do things for you.

Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.

People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built a plane.

The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.