I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.

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.

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

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 like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.

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

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