Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.

Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.