The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.

When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

My plays are always involved with society, but I'm writing about people, too, and it's clear over the years that audiences understand them and care about them. The political landscape changes, the issues change, but the people are still there. People don't really change that much.

When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back.