A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.

I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.

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

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

Before the boiling of blood and the searing of skin comes the secret catastrophe: Before Life on Earth becomes finally merely impossible, it will for a long time before have become completely unbearable.

You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.

The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.