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.

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

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?

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

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

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

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.