I don't pay much attention to how the plays relate thematically to each other. I think that's very dangerous to do, because in the theater one is self-conscious enough without planning ahead or wondering about the thematic relation from one play to the next. One hopes that one is developing, and writing interestingly, and that's where it should end, I think.

Each time I sit down and write a play I try to dismiss from my mind as much as I possibly can the implications of what I've done before, what I'm going to do, what other people think about my work, the failure or success of the previous play. I'm stuck with a new reality that I've got to create.

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

Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.

Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.

Maybe it's a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play's a little more pertinent now.

Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.