My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

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

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

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

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.