If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with

I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid... One wants... But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?

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

I think that it's worthwhile to explore the ways in which you write the person that's writing your plays as opposed to simply assuming that it's all a natural process and there's no design in it. Because your public persona is designed, to a certain extent, and you can have fun and profit at various times doing that.

One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.