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.

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

The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you up and says this is what I'm afraid of. Do not listen to me at your peril.... The imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to get to.

You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure.

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

There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.

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