And My Singing, I Don't

I Grew Up In A Very Polite Family, And I Suppose My Parents Were Both Very Polite, And From The Time I Was A Young Boy, I Suspected That There Were Passions Seething Underneath And Not Being Mentioned, And That Was Something That Came To Preoccupy Me. Somehow I Had Some Drive To Write Down What People Might Really Be Thinking.

In Real Life, Every Person Is The Leading Man Or Woman. We Don't Think Of Ourselves As Supporting Or Character Actors.

I'm Not Proud To Be Me, I'm Not Excited To Be Me, But I Find That I Am Me, And Like Most Other Individuals, I Send Out Little Signals; I Tell Everyone Else How Everything Looks From Where I Am.

My Style As A Human Being Is To Indulge People Who Need To Escape, Yet I Insist On Confronting Them As A Playwright. It's Quite Embarrassing, It's Quite Unpleasant, It's Quite Awkward.

I Do Things, And Other People Laugh At Them. I Rarely Know What The Joke Is Supposed To Be Or Why They're Laughing.