Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control.

I don't know what it's like to be Jewish, but I suspect there is some aspect of that: being Jewish is the thing that bonds you as opposed to being Jewish from Poland, or Jewish from Hungary.

I don't want to test that simple sense of being human. I don't want to transform it.

I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them.

If you want to really deeply touch the viewer or the reader, the theater might be the most powerful way to do it.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.