I don't feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.

Curiously enough, the only two plays that I've done very much revision on were the two adaptations - even though the shape of them was pretty much determined by the original work. With my own plays, the only changes, aside from taking a speech out here, putting one in there (if I thought I dwelled on a point a little too long or didn't make it explicit enough), are very minor; but even though they're very minor - having to do with the inability of actors or the unwillingness of the director to go along with me - I've always regretted them.

When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.

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

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

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

You want to dance with me, angel tits?