I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

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

What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.

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

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, "Hello, how do you do?" because their minds are absorbed with electronic images.

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