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.

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.

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

The only thing wrong with me was that I was a weirdo that hated school. I'm sure now there'd be a disorder for it, but I was just an oddball.

Good and quickly seldom meet.

The notion of democracy beginning to emerge scares the ideologues, the totalitarians, those who want to impose their vision. It just frightens them.

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

It's kinda like being on a roller coaster. If you don't get on the ride, you won't experience the adventure.

Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.

Don't worry about something going away; enjoy it while it's happening. And don't worry about something that's not even real.

If you climbed one step, it means you can climb the rest.

To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely.