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.

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential.

Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.