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

I won't ever do e-mail.

The realization that I came to is that each citizen for himself or herself understands the economics, which is, "I better make more than I spend and I better put something aside for a rainy day, and I want to get a good idea about what to do with the surplus so that perhaps it can grow while I'm sleeping." And that that's capitalism. Everybody practices it, but half of the country - those on the left - deny that it's true.

Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order.

I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.

We all die in the end, but there's no reason to die in the middle.

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?"