Edward Albee

Old people whimper, and cry, and belch, and make great hollow rumbling sounds at table; old people wake up in the middle of the night screaming, and find out they haven't even been asleep; and when old people are asleep, they try to wake up, and they can't... not for the longest time.

My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel.

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.