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

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

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

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.

The fantastic thing about the theatre is that it can make something be seen that's invisible, and that's where my interest in theatre is- that you can be watching this thing happening with actors and costumes and light and set and language, and even plot, and something emerges from beyond that, and that's the image part that I'm looking for, that sort of added dimension.

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

You can’t keep messing me around like this. It’s been going on too long. I can’t take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. You’re like a disease to me.