If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two or three pages at a time, then I transfer to the typewriter and rewrite while I type.

It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture.

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.

Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

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.