After the falling out with my father, I worked on a couple of ranches - thoroughbred layup farms, actually - out toward Chino, California. That was fine for a little while, but I wanted to get out completely, and twenty miles away wasnt far enough.

Caryl Churchill is a writer of some note, but in the sack, she makes me explain everything.

I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.

I've heard writers talk about "discovering a voice," but for me that wasn't a problem. There were so many voices that I didn't know where to start.

Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster.

Keep away from fantasy. Shake off the image.

In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The purpose of it, of course, was to write about myself. That character was always the least fully realized. Eighteen years later, you realize, That's what he was about.