Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the rhetoric has become so heated, that conversation is almost impossible.

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

In art as in life, some things need no translation.

Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process.

When you really love someone, you see all their mess and their brokenness and you love them anyway. In fact, seeing all of that sort of makes you love them more.

The ignorant learn from none, the simple learn from some, the intelligent learn from many, but the enlightened learn from all.

My mother’s laughter was infectious - like a cheerful tune that lingers in your mind for the rest of the day.

In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.

Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and will certainly outlast you.

When you decide to hit rock bottom, humiliation is part of the deal.

I don't rule out anything in my future.

The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.

Everything that we eat today has been improved through some sort of breeding process. Anytime you do this, you introduce not only the genes that you know, but some that are not characterized.

Friends may come and go, but barbecues accumulate.