What I'm really involved in when I'm writing is something that no one ever mentions when they see any play. Writing is like trying to make gunpowder out of chemicals. You have these words and sentences and the strange meanings and associations that are attached to the words and sentences, and you're somehow cooking these things all up so that they suddenly explode and have a powerful effect. That's what absorbs me from day to day in writing a play.

It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior

I don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television.

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

I was clever enough to know that John Donne was offering something that was awfully enjoyable. I just wasn't clever enough to actually enjoy it.

I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.

'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.