I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.

Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.

All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.

I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to tell a story in cinematic ways, but theater is a much more elusive craft.

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.

I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.