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.

Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.

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.

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.

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.

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

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.