I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.

One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.

I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.

I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

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