Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.

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

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

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.

You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can omit, but how you are going to do the grammar of the omission, how you make things continue to work when there's something missing. It's your last chance to rewrite.

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.