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.

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

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.

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.

The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.

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