I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go.

Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it.

When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also writing the playwright. You're developing yourself as a persona, as a public persona. It's going to be partly exposed through the writing itself and partly created by all the paraphernalia that attaches itself to writing. But you aren't simply an invisible being or your own private being at work. You're kind of a public figure, as well.