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

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

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

Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around.

Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.

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

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.