I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don't do business with.... I can't do business with you.

You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.

I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close. I also find it like Chinese water torture, that we're so close because you have to find the right six people to make the right connection... I am bound, you are bound, to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people.

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing.

The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.

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