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

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.

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.

A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.

She's happy to be home but being home means that it's an end to her adventure and escape.

Four out of five doctors prescribe baseball for whatever ails you. The fifth guy is a quack.

what is not true does not exist in this moment.

I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where ... the point is to acquire the skills not of positive thinking but of critical thinking.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

It was unsettling to be in love with someone who looked like the face in her nightmares.

US special forces are closing in on Saddam Hussain but they're afraid to go in. He's hiding out in Tony Martin's farmhouse.

Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.