Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.

Serendipity always rewards the prepared.

Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.

It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

You don’t know what’s going to happen in the end, and that’s what the best plays are.

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race.

I always felt like Broadway was not for me - in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of the Great White Way.

Memories? Pheh. Those just get in the way of living.

The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.

In the end, it's always a single person who makes change. But I do think we should try to send artists out into the world and not have them all stick together in the big cities.

When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.

There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global.

There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart.

Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.

Because to me it is inconceivable that a subordinate leader should not carry out orders given by the leaders of the State.

I love sharing my life with my followers. Hopefully, they are following me because they genuinely want to know me. It's a way to connect with fans that wasn't available just a few years ago.

How do you tell when you’re out of invisible ink?