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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.