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.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

There is nothing more boring than people who love you.

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.

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.

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.