In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.

I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.

It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.

And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into...

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.