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.

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.

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.

Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those miserable day jobs writing reviews. Will somebody help them, please?

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

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.