I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am it somehow found its way into it.

With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.

So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere.

From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.

I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.

I've worked really hard, but I know people who have worked even harder but didn't have the chances I've had.

I dont want to work on a musical if Im not the lyricist.

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity.

I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly.

Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being.

Humans seldom have created anything of lasting value unless they were tired or hurting.

If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.

As long as you fight, you cannot lose... if you leave everything out there, it doesn't matter if you win or lose. To me you can never lose.

Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.

Can you deep fry the bacon? Oh how I wish you would.

Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

If there is anything I really fear it is the mind of a young girl.

Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.

I am an educator who thinks globally.