Certainly I've never tried to imagine what the future will hold. It's a hopeless endeavor to try to do such a thing.

To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.

Facts are lonely things.

The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.

I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.