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 never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.

We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.

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

On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.

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