As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.

It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.

Broadway remains the closest thing we have to a national theatre, the place where the greatest number of people can potentially see new work. For an American playwright to say it doesn't matter is simply to capitulate to the current situation.

The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.

In some ways [the Internet]'s definitely an enemy.

I don't know what will happen to me without you. Only you. Only you love me. Out of everyone in the world.