Love is the only disease that makes you feel better..

I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny.

Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around..

Words are tools of imagery in motion..

This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone..

The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness..

The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not describe….

The words I overuse are all adverbs..

I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's a….

Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but it can't be ultimately changed. I….

When you're looking for someone, you're looking for some aspect of yourself, even if you don't know it ... What we're searching for is what we lack..

I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise..

Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster..

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common..

I wanted to write a play about double nature ... one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff. I just wanted to give a taste of….

When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in..

There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part o….

In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly ….

For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have thes….

Being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody. Whereas, as an actor, you have to audition or wait for somebody else to….

I hate endings. Just detest them. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster. … The temptation to….