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

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

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.

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.

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've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

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