You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do

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.

People rewrite the play so much to make it palatable to the audience, to make something clear, that they just deaden it. Like it was left it in the oven too long.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

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.