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

The body is the garden of the soul.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much. Except for Poe.

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

I love musicals but it's very, very different. It's really just a different form than serious drama, and has very different rules and a completely different set of characters and requirements and ambitions. It maybe shouldn't be as separate as it is, but it's got a different history. In terms of serious drama, I think you'd have to say that you could break it down essentially into the narrative realist tradition and experimental theater.

I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly political or not.