A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.

The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress

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

They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.

Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.