The best work that I am able to do is when I am willing to write about questions I haven't quite figured out, or things I'm really wrestling with, things that keep me up at night.

So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.

In reality, life was arranged and human relations were complicated so utterly beyond all understanding that when one thought about it one felt uncanny and one's heart sank.

Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from.

I'm always very self-conscious and assume the way faith or religion might come up in my plays will seem very harsh to people of faith, or who are currently practicing.

I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have to be ruthless.

I know how much respect I have for people of all different faiths, but especially for my family, who are the most important people in my life, and who are still practicing, and deeply religious.

Priests are very interested in theater in New York! It's this lovely reminder that priests are just people, too, who need to be entertained.

He who called her so called her by her true name, for she is the full moon of full moons, afore God!

Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?

Time is truly apathetic to the many to whom a little empathy would mean so much.~"Disarming (Reign of Blood #2)

Fighting external monsters is easy in comparison to how we fight those within us.

Classic music is th' kind that we keep thinkin'll turn into a tune.

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.

There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.