Success is always something that you have to recover from.
At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.
I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.
Write about the thing that frightens you most.
People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.
After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no one would produce anything of mine they didn't think would be as big as ''night, Mother.'