“I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?”

“A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.”

“I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.”

“If you spend a hundred bucks, or more, to go to the theatre, something should happen to you. Maybe somebody should be asking you some questions about your values, or about the way you think about things. Maybe you should come out of the theatre, something having happened to you. Maybe you should be changing, or thinking about changing. But if you just go there, and the only thing you worry about is where you left the damn car, then you wasted a hundred bucks.”

“If you spend a hundred bucks, or more, to go to the theatre, something should happen to you. Maybe somebody should be asking you some questions about your values, or about the way you think about things. Maybe you should come out of the theatre, something haven happened to you. Maybe you should be changing, or thinking about changing. But if you just go there, and the only thing you worry about is where you left the damn car, then you wasted a hundred bucks.”

“I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.”

“To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all my love.”

“Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.”

“In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that’s much quieter.”

“What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it”

“I write to find out what I'm talking about.”