You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?
Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.
I write to find out what I'm talking about.
What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it
The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence - putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply - if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise.
My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel.
He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.
A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end; and I am at just the very beginning of what I hope will be a long and satisfying life in the theater. But, whatever happens, I am grateful to have had my novice work received so well, and so quickly.
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.
I am convinced that no one is fully educated without a full grounding in the arts.
Old people whimper, and cry, and belch, and make great hollow rumbling sounds at table; old people wake up in the middle of the night screaming, and find out they haven't even been asleep; and when old people are asleep, they try to wake up, and they can't... not for the longest time.
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
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.
You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
