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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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