I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of antecedents.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support myself as a playwright at this point. I don’t think anybody does.

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

Working on your dream whenever it is convenient for you will not work. When you dare to dream, you should also dare to do.

Whatever you do, do with love to be the success and to find the joy.

Even if yesterday existed, today is just real, not a fantasy like the past.

Then he commandeered the floor, shooting back and forth like some hot Latin lover. When he finished, everyone applauded. He could have stayed in that moment forever.

Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.

The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being

There had never been a death so foretold.

A generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity.

The church is so big on law but not on the love.

It's a lot of working out, you know, and you don't get to eat all the things you wanna eat.