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.

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

I find it fascinating to think about what the world is going to be like when people won't talk anymore.

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

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

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

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.