Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic block….

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deli….

When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also writing the playwright. ….

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead..