It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider.

I give credence to the worst things somebody writes about me, and if somebody writes something nice, I think they're wrong or false or lying or joking.

If I get no sleep the night before a show, I feel that performance is the best one.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.

I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.