The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.

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

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

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

A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.

Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.

I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die