I said to my wife just the other day, I was actually taking some time to consider all the blessings in my life and that things are really good. I said, you would have to be a real churl to complain about the life I'm living right now. Everything's going great. I'm having a good time.

The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.

I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never have a plan.

Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.

We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.

Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get into another character's shoes and experience things both mundane and tragic. And people don't - like me right now - people aren't necessarily the most eloquent when trying to express their emotions. I guess I feel as a playwright that those people deserve a voice, too, a voice that isn't so articulate that they themselves can no longer identify with it.

Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.