The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something and you don't quite know what it is.

When you die it's the end of your life.

I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise.

Ive been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.