I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work.

I write, but I also act.

I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground.

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.

I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.