You are responsible for the world that you live in. It is not government's responsibility. It is not your school's or your social club's or your church's or your neighbor's or your fellow citizen's. It is yours, utterly and singularly yours.

I don't write for a particular audience.

All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything.

Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.

You are responsible for the world that you live in.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and their attitudes, the stance that they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues.