Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.

I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.

Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.

On the sound of handcuffs--"For me it's the sound of all light and hope crashing down on a minority.

Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself.

If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have.

You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.

I don't think that disasters have to be spectacular. They can be a slow corrosion.

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.

I don't follow trends. I'm just not into what everyone else is wearing. I have my own look, which I call 'Lolita Meets Old Hollywood Glam.'

If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.

One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.