Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.

So somehow, things that seem extraneous to the play in reality are not. The scene lasts 37 minutes, and you only need 12 minutes of that for the plot. But if you pull the rest of it out, it's not my play.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

You are responsible for the world that you live in.

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

If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.