I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.

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

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

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.

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

I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available’.

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