As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

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

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.

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.

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

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

Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness and, well, untruthfulness of our lives, it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth. Nothing unknown is knowable.