Sincerity Doesn't Mean Anything. A Person Can

True, I Don't Begin With An Idea For A Play - A Thesis, In Other Words, To Construct The Play Around. But I Know A Good Deal About The Nature Of The Characters. I Know A Great Deal About Their Environment. And I More Or Less Know What Is Going To Happen In The Play.

The Health Of A Nation, A Society, Can Be Determined By The Art It Demands. We Have Insisted Of Television And Our Movies That They Not Have Anything To Do With Anything, That They Be Our Never-never Land; And If We Demand This Same Function Of Our Live Theatre, What Will Be Left Of The Visual-auditory Arts - Save The Dance (in Which Nobody Talks) And Music (to Which Nobody Listens)?

In A Democracy You Cannot Stop Public Access To That Art That Will Most Misinform The People. You Cannot Stop People From Being Misinformed. But What You Can Do Is To Educate The People To The Point That They Will Throw The Rascals Out.

I’m Infinitely More Involved In The Reality Of The Characters And Their Situation Than I Am In Everyday Life.

There Are A Number Of Contemporary Playwrights Whom I Admire Enormously, But That's Not At All The Same Thing As Being Influenced.