Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.