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

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it.

What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.

I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.

I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.

Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.