Some Things That Make Sense To Me

When I'm Writing A Play I Hear It Like Music. I Use The Same Indications That A Composer Does For Duration. There's A Difference, I Tell My Students, Between A Semi-colon And A Period. A Difference In Duration. And We Have All These Wonderful Things, We Use Commas And Underlining And All The Wonderful Punctuation Things We Can Use In The Same Way A Composer Uses Them In Music. And We Can Indicate, As Specifically As A Composer, The Way We Want Our Piece To Sound.

Being Different Is ... Interesting; There's Nothing Implicitly Inferior Or Superior About It. Great Difference, Of Course, Produces Natural Caution; And If The Differences Are Too Extreme ... Well, Then, Reality Tends To Fade Away.

It Always Seems To Me Better To Slough Off The Answer To A Question That I Consider To Be A Terrible Invasion Of Privacy - The Kind Of Privacy That A Writer Must Keep For Himself.

Dashed Hopes And Good Intentions. Good, Better, Best, Bested.

A Play Is A Parenthesis That Contains All The Material You Think Has To Be Contained For The Action Of The Play. Where Do You End That? Where The Characters Seem To Come To A Pause... Where They Seem To Want To Stop - Rather Like, I Would Think, The Construction Of A Piece Of Music.