Quotations

«I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.»

«What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.»

«Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?»

«I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.»

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

«Oh, Mother, you go home too early!»

«Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.»

«that my plays were 'necessary.' I will go one step further and say that Arthur's plays are 'essential.' »

«I've never seen it staged or on film, but the story is so intense that I could feel the adrenaline running through my body while reading it. There's this chest-tightening anxiety of being thrown into the middle of this conflict between the different characters. I also love the idea that you can be drawn in by hateful characters. It takes a very good writer to create a character that you despise, yet find engaging. And there's the twist of the imaginary child. As it develops, you realize what is actually going on beneath it all. It's shocking and pretty horrifying.»

«He's a splendid writer and a good political activist. I can't think of a better choice.»