Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if yo….

I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes ….

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time ….

I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like..

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life..

I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls..

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!.

I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't….

My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite embarrassing, it's qu….

We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard….

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that..

There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic..

I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all..

Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?.

I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permissi….

For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's….

As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable..

I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write..

It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior.

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way….

I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what it's about later. My technique could be co….