God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.

Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.

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

I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.

I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go to Columbia, every time I went into the subway I was absolutely astounded because you see people from all over the world who actually live here - who aren't just here as tourists.

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.