Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.

A lot of your personality is formed before you're 12, obviously, but only a few of my plays use characters from my childhood. The more mature plays are affected only by my adult experiences.

He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.

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

When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.

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.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.