There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support myself as a playwright at this point. I don’t think anybody does.

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

Jesus!" Luke exclaimed."Actually, it's just me, " said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.

Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion.

My happiness isn't dependent on anyone else's.

I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and they are also a means by which we engage with the world around us.

I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine.

We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.

Only a Perfect One who is always laughing at the word two can make you know of Love.

If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.

I managed a team that was so bad we considered a 2-0 count on the batter a rally.

It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.