"A playwright lives in an occupied country… And if you can't live that way you don't stay."

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“The job is to ask questions — it always was — and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.”

“Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.”

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“A playwright … is … the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's great.”

“I'm very well liked in Hartford. You know, the trouble is, Linda, people don't seem to take to me.”

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