The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you up and says this is what I'm afraid of. Do not listen to me at your peril.... The imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to get to.

The only riots were the people trying to get tickets.

You can't be a sort of pioneer.

I'm sure there are some good dramaturgs but I've never worked with one.

What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You have to earn truth. Truth can't be a part of the fact that people appear to talk that way and live in that room. You're looking for the poetry in something, and I don't mean poetry in the fancy sense. Naturalism believes by just replicating a thing you give the truth, rather than earning the truth.

How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.

Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed.