EDWARD ALBEE

"A play is fiction-and fiction is fact distilled into truth."

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

"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 have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor."

"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."

"One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand."

"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 people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement."

"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."