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.

The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well , you meet people like this. Run away from them. They're not good people.

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

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.

When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most people who create go through something like this. You willfully loosen some of the inner straps that hold your core together.