The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.

That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?

My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.

I'm very into the first production of the show.

And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.

It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.