Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the rhetoric has become so heated, that conversation is almost impossible.

In art as in life, some things need no translation.

Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process.

Instead of bracing yourself for the perils of the unknown, embrace the joy that is here, in your present moment.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.

Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.

We are reflectors, and as reflectors we have one duty and that is to stay clean or we won't reflect Jesus.

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

I just want the pain to end.

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you.'