It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.

When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility for a play about two people, and suddenly the officer is finding all manner of exotic contraband like the nature of God and identity, and while he can't deny that they're there, he can't for the life of him remember putting them there. In the end, a play is not the product of an idea; an idea is the product of a play.

ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.

The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.