I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or love, had really gone away. Free. It would be...heartless terror. Yes. Terrible, and... Very great. To shed your skin, every old skin, one by one and then walk away, unemcumbered, into the morning.

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's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

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