Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic.

It's a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture.

Plays are architecture, and you can make them stand in many ways that are hard to describe. And, I think, in our limited ability to describe them, we've substituted our inarticulateness for saying that there's one and only one structure.

I think theatre is a democratic act and I think writing a play is not a democratic act. I think we should give writers more leeway and space to write the thing they want to write, and then we should produce the play, multiple times, and let them re-write it.

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

I do think there's a relationship between a book and a reader that's more intimate, in many ways, than the relationship between an audience member and a play - just by the nature of it being an object that you can have in bed with you and that you can keep and page through.