I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly educated and articulate personality--a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) there placement of complex inner density with a new kind of self--evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the 'instantly available.'

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

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.

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

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.

As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.