I don't understand my feelings. I really don't. I don't understand how I could hate you so much after so much time. How, no matter how much I'd like to not hate you, I hate you even more. It grows.

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

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.

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

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.

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

[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.