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

I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.

You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.

I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'

I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort.

There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there's only the political, and the decoys and the ploys to maneuver around the inescapable battle of politics.

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