That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

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.

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

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 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.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.