Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.

The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal for 78 years. Did the ban make them 'more' illegal? The ban addresses only the appearance of weapons, not their operation.

The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.

Characters on stage, like people in what we refer to as "real life," do not speak to reveal themselves. They do not speak to conceal themselves. They speak to get whatever it is that they want. It is the only reason they speak.

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.