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

Film is like tech starts on the first day of filming and it never stops. There's never a moment when the audience comes in, you're just in tech forever, and I can't stand being on a film set. It's really tedious.

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

Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.

One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid... One wants... But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?

I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

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.