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.'

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.

Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.

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.

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