I like cars. I like travel. I like the idea of people breaking down and I'm the only one who can help them get on the road again. It would be like be….

The fantastic thing about the theatre is that it can make something be seen that's invisible, and that's where my interest in theatre is- that you ca….

Keep away from fantasy. Shake off the image..

There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over..

The words I overuse are all adverbs..

Words are tools of imagery in motion..

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….

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….

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 ….

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….

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

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

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

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

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….

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….

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

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..

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….

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..

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….