The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.

When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with.

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

Write about the thing that frightens you most.

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.