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.

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

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.

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.

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.