Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.

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

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

Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.

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.