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.

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."

Oh, I never use a seat belt. I don't believe in gravity.

Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. It seems like spelling out mysterious, musical details can destroy a play by making the motivations too clear, too simplex.

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.

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

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.