Words are tools of imagery in motion.

Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.

I wanted to write a play about double nature ... one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff. I just wanted to give a taste of what it feels like to be two-sided. It's a real thing, double nature. I think we're split in a much more devastating way than psychology can ever reveal. It's not so cute. Not some little thing we can get over. It's something we've got to live with

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

In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The purpose of it, of course, was to write about myself. That character was always the least fully realized. Eighteen years later, you realize, That's what he was about.

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

Keep away from fantasy. Shake off the image.