“Art should never try to be popular.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.

What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.

Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

Prom has all the elements of a popular story.

The chip-pan fire was by far the most popular method these Proddies had for burning their houses down.

The second technique was the ever popular chimney fire and number three had to be the drunken cigarette drop on the carpet.

In the UK cycling was very popular until the end of the 1950’s but it really lost out to our love affair with the car.

But I’d rather be the most-hated winning coach in the country than the most-popular losing one.

Mystical idealism, and higher evolutionary Wisdom from the mechanisms of popular culture.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal.

I had to fight with myself ’cause he’s so good, yet he’s so popular.