I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.

We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.

We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?