So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere.

With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.

From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.

I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.

I've worked really hard, but I know people who have worked even harder but didn't have the chances I've had.

I dont want to work on a musical if Im not the lyricist.

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity.

I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am it somehow found its way into it.

I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly.

History made when mindset changed.

Reading every day keeps the brain dead sickness away.

But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!

If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.

All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used.

Take your faith out of the lies! Free your faith, and you will see how powerful you become.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.

Biker chicks want the bad boy.