If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

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.

I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?