To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage.

Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.

There is chaos behind the civility, of course.

There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.

All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.