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

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

Serendipity always rewards the prepared.

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

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

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.

To look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is to me impossible.

That was how I met her, in a bar in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, she was drinking and watching, and that was why I liked her, I thought she would be fun to have fun with.

Most people aren't unsuccessful in life because they don't know what to do. They are unsuccessful because they don't DO what they know how to do. Knowledge is power IF...you use it.

Life is not going to be sweet all the time.

If we wanted to make money we would have become lawyers or doctors or stuff like that.

...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

If you want to be a star, don't bother doing it because it ends up being very empty.

People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

Jesus was a crackpot.

A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.