I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off.

Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.

I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.

I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work.

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.

It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.

Speak about the love of God and faces light up, but speak of God as a Judge, and our attitudes change.

My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.

To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.

The zeal of fools offends at any time.

I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be.

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

I believe that all people that are successful should pay back their cities, their states, their towns, our country.

There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow.

It was a basic plot in any number of her books: girl strikes out, makes good, finds love, gets revenge. In that order. The making good and striking out part I liked. The rest would just be bonus.

I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.