The kind of theater that I do is sort of ‘narrative realism,’ which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist.

You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it.

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with

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

Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?

Real love isn't ever ambivalent.