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

Everyone talks about America, this great country. You hear, "I'm more patriotic than you are. No, I'm more patriotic!" But how few people know the history of this country and how we came into being. That's the part that just amazed me.

I don't think about taking a risk. I think about how far can I go. How can I make myself. What are the risks I must create.

I'm sure there are some good dramaturgs but I've never worked with one.

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

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.

James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.