In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.

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

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.

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.

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

I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.