Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do that by speaking from the heart about the things that matter most to us. If a play isn't worth dying for, maybe it isn't worth writing.

I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy but I don't - life is a blessing.

There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.

Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.

Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do that by speaking from the heart about the things that matter most to us. If a play isn't worth dying for, maybe it isn't worth writing.

Technology promises to let us do anything from anywhere with anyone. But it also drains us as we try to do everything everywhere. In a surprising twist, relentless connection leads to a new solitude.

In those days, you had to like one or the other. You couldn't like Sutherland AND Callas.