Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.

The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.

I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other than going to your desk and writing, when every closet is reorganized and you've called your oldest living relative twice in one day to see what she's up to and there isn't an unanswered e-mail left on your computer or you simply can't bear to answer another one and there is no dignity, not a drop left, in any further evasion of the task at hand, namely writing, well, you can always ask your dentist for a root canal or have an accident in the bathtub instead.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.

A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament.

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.