I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

I won't ever do e-mail.

When I started out I was a failed actor.

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.

Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.