The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

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.

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

It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.

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

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

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.