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 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.

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

We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.

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

Broadway remains the closest thing we have to a national theatre, the place where the greatest number of people can potentially see new work. For an American playwright to say it doesn't matter is simply to capitulate to the current situation.

I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me.