Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.

Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.

The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you how to write and to direct. The classroom will teach you how to obey, and obedience in the theatre will get you nowhere. It’s a soothing falsity.