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

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 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.

If you delegate tasks, you create followers, if you delegate authority, you create leaders

Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.

I don't think a judge should be too much involved in outside activities.

Well, Jon Hamm isn't a real celebrity.

I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.

The more intellectual you are, the more egoistic you are, and surrendering becomes more difficult.

I've taken many knocks over the years but it has only made me stronger and more determined to succeed.

Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now.

Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful.