Theatre for a New Audience is one of America's most admirable and exciting theatre companites...some of the best acted and directed work to be found on American stages, engaging with the canon of world dramatic literature in a vigorous way.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

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

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

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.

Nothing's lost forever.

I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much. Except for Poe.