I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die

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

My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.

I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us. This Age wanted heroes. It got us instead: carefully constructed, but immobile. Subtle but, unfit to take up the burden of the times. It happens. A whole generation of washouts. History says stand up, and we totter and collapse, weeping, moved, but not sufficient.

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