I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter.

Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing.

I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.

Man, that's the only kind of book I like – one that's so real you want to find out everything there is to know about the person who wrote it, like how tall he is and what kind of music he likes and whether or not he really went through all the stuff he was writing about.

It's been hard for me to not write, and that's the only process I can speak to I guess, it's so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.