Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other.

Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun. . . . In baseball you only get three swings and you're out. In rewriting, you get almost as many swings as you want and you know, sooner or later, you'll hit the ball.

Once you've opened yourself up, it's best to go all the way.

I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me living 100 years later in New York City. I'm drawn to him because of his way with characters and their relationships with each other.

There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal.