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

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.'

It's true, I don't like the real world.

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

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.

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

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