A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament.

When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also writing the playwright. You're developing yourself as a persona, as a public persona. It's going to be partly exposed through the writing itself and partly created by all the paraphernalia that attaches itself to writing. But you aren't simply an invisible being or your own private being at work. You're kind of a public figure, as well.

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

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.

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?

People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math skills, and so forth, then you ensure that they can't act effectively.