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

A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre.

I found that life intruding on writing was, in fact, life. And that, tempting as it may be for a writer who is a parent, one must not think of life as an intrusion. At the end of the day, writing has very little to do with writing, and much to do with life. And life, by definition, is not an intrusion.

In America I think it's much more full of disruption culturally; it's much more mysterious how we inherit culture here. We grab it where we can find it - we're insatiable - and there can be a sense here that it's not available to you as readily as it is in other cultures.

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.

Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us.