I have often been asked how my plays come about. I cannot say. Nor can I ever sum up my plays, except to say that this is what happened. That is what they said. That is what they did.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

我让我的灵魂穿过无形，拼写出来世的某些信件：不久后我的灵魂回到我身边，回答说“我自己就是天堂和地狱。”

A writer is selected by his subject—his subject being the consciousness of his own era.