You can't be a sort of pioneer.

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.

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

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.

1975 is as much a historical document as 1803.

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.

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?