The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."

I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn.

It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.

can only write about what bites you.