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

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

I've had wonderful collaborators. They're very different, just as actors are. Working on a show with Nathan Lane is different from working on a show with Chita Rivera. It keeps you on your toes because it's different every time.

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

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.

I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.

Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director was someone who liked my play. I was rudely awakened from that fantasy when he directed it as if he loathed it. . . . Work with good actors. A good actor hears the way you (and no one else) write. A good actor makes rewrites easy. A good actor tells you things about your play you didn't know.