Where the terror is, you must go.

I'd like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed.

Choose Life over the other stuff. Get out of your head. Live. Dress up. Eat. Touch people. Help out. Give up. Love people. Give your best away. There’s more. What’s the problem? Relax. You’re going to die. Throw a party. Eat off my plate. Sing to me. Meet me in the bedroom. Get a massage. Give one. Let your amazement out into the room. Pry open the box you hide your joy in. Be a poem.

I have doubts! I have such doubts!

Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. Thats what writing a screenplay is.

All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and I got involved in analyzing everyone around me. . . . Eventually, all my friends' eyes began to glaze over when I started talking this way, and I got the hint that there might be something comical in it.