It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

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.

Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.

I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because youre literally not dependent on anybody.

There's gonna be a general lack of toast in the neighborhood this morning.