Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.

I have the world's worst taste in men, so now I simply have wonderful relationships of the friend kind, but trying to settle down with somebody? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm beyond that.

As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.

I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.