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.

Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.

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.

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

I think that some of these plays are lost in this new horror called development, which is a place for dramaturgs to say "let me tell you what your play means," and the life gets sucked out of a play.

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

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.