Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster. Writing has to be….

I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart..

Technology promises to let us do anything from anywhere with anyone. But it also drains us as we try to do everything everywhere. In a surprising twi….

Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater..

Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do that….

I've had wonderful collaborators. They're very different, just as actors are. Working on a show with Nathan Lane is different from working on a show ….

Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director was someone who liked my play. I ….

I don't think I've ever written anything even remotely naturalistic. The closest probably would be seen as 'Frankie and Johnny,' and that's only 'cau….

Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while we are creative….

I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out..

In those days, you had to like one or the other. You couldn't like Sutherland AND Callas..

I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy but I don't - life is a blessing..

There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them..