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

I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.

I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

Don't be afraid; people are so afraid; don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone...Learn at least this: What you are capable of. Let nothing stand in your way.

It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.

So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take pictures of it. You can make a film of it. But it's not the production. It's not the same thing.