When A Critic Sets Himself

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.

What I Mean By An Educated Taste Is Someone Who Has The Same Tastes That I Have.

About Four Years Ago I Made A List, For My Own Amusement, Of The Playwrights, The Contemporary Playwrights, By Whom Critics Said I'd Been Influenced. I Listed Twenty-five. It Included Five Playwrights Whose Work I Didn't Know, So I Read These Five Playwrights And Indeed Now I Suppose I Can Say I Have Been Influenced By Them. The Problem Is That The People Who Write These Articles Find The Inevitable Similarities Of People Writing In The Same Generation, In The Same Century, And On The Same Planet, And They Put Them Together In A Group.

To Write A Play One Must Be Born A Playwright. Otherwise, You're Starting At A Huge Disadvantage.

First, I'll Kill The Dog With Kindness, And If That Doesn't Work, I'll Just Kill Him.