I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear..

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore..

If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything..

I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously..

I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and….

There are certain early plays of mine that I really don't like, but I can't imagine going back and fixing them. I would be totally incapable of it. I….

For me, on every project, I realize that I've boxed myself into a corner, or that the play necessitates some sort of theatrical convention that I rea….

I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more convent….

If I were less lazy, when my play was published, I would go and rewrite everything for the reader. But I don't do that. What people are reading is ju….

I feel like the reason I ended up becoming a playwright is because I never choose the right word. As a kid, my fantasy profession was to be a novelis….

Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow..

I feel with writing, so much of the time, I don't know how to tap in and be spontaneous and alive on a daily basis. So I don't write every day. I'm j….

If I think back to every rehearsal process for every play I've ever worked on, there's just so much crying at home. I barely sleep. There are moments….

I feel like my life is at its happiest when I don't have a looming deadline. There's some really groovy wonderful times, when I'm like, "I have a new….

I never had a lot of ideas. I always have exactly one that is the next project; the idea of a project beyond that project is ludicrous..

I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating abou….

Being sad and going out on terrible dates and having horrible breakups and then having a shitty job and then quitting the shitty job and then wonderi….

For early plays of mine, I started with character. But I think that's because I hadn't been in theaters; I hadn't worked that much. I'm very interest….

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself..

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays..

I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over ag….