If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.