I'm an American playwright. Tennessee Williams got in all our DNA.

I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close. I also find it like Chinese water torture, that we're so close because you have to find the right six people to make the right connection... I am bound, you are bound, to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people.

1975 is as much a historical document as 1803.

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.

I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.

Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.

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.