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

I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

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

One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid... One wants... But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?

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

I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for the music of language, for what we call poetry, for the sound effects and the way that the sound can produce sensual feeling at odds with or consonant with the content of the work. Your work is also gorgeous writing. It's very unfortunate when you open a novel that everybody's loving and it's just, you know, an excruciatingly bad sentence.

One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.