One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.

The most transgressive, the most taboo, the darkest act that could happen is a parent killing their own child.

I still can remember some of the poems and proverbs, I learnt in my childhood.

On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

I think I throw the ball as hard as anyone. The ball just doesn't get there as fast.

When I first went to Africa, I thought that I was personally going to save the continent, if not the world.

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I dont believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.

From one match to the next, I kept on winning.