That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.

The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.

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

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

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.

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

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.