The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty with the set, which required too much effort to move around. Having gotten the benefit of seeing it done once, I wanted to work on the script, to make it sharper and more pointed.

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.

I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license number. In the state of Massachusetts, this is the same number as that used for Social Security, unless you object to such use. In THAT case, you are ASSIGNED a number and you reside forever more on the list of "weird people who don't give out their Social Security Number in Massachusetts."

The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.