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

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.

The only riots were the people trying to get tickets.

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

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.

It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.