Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

I never write a play with an eye to film.

[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.

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.

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.