As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.

It is to a dramatist, which is to say, to an unfrocked psychoanalyst, stunning that that which has sustained the Left in my generation, its avatar, its prime issue, has been abortion. For, whether or not it is regarded as a woman's right, an unfortunate necessity, or murder, which is to say, irrespective of differing and legitimate political views, to enshrine it as the most important test of the Liberal, is, mythologically, an assertion to the ultimate right of a postreligious Paganism.

They have a desire to put on plays and to fulfill that traditional role of a theater in a community: to be the place where people go to hear the truth.

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

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

It's only words... unless they're true.

It's upsetting to be a man in our society.