You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.

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.

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

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

The power of the past to still dominate our thinking today.

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.

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.