You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.

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

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.