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

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 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.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities..

Meditation is a great tool which can be used to create harmony between the inner subconscious world and the outer chaotic world.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

My mother and my sisters - five girls - were crazy about glamour and Hollywood movies. I styled myself on Veronica Lake and Marlene Dietrich.

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.

I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.

Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.

You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.

I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.