One is told that you're either a hot writer, or you're finished and you're over. But of course, the more you hang around and the more you become aware not only of what "reputation" is for other writers, but also what your own reputation is, you become aware that it's much more complicated than the conventional media would have you believe.

I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.

I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'

One of the things I love about my job as a playwright or as a screenwriter is that I get to do a lot of research and a lot of thinking and taking a lot of notes before I turn it in.

You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go.

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.