We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between Might and Do.

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.

The fountain of living water never runs dry.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Play with the emotions, play with the heart and the animal will surrender to yo

To visualize that which doesn't exist, yet to believe with confidence that it can be realized, is truly something miraculous.

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.

Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.

Never take what's offered, always ask for more.

If ignorance is bliss, it's cuz she's never heard of this...

If everything is going very well in your life, don't change any parameters; don't even think about it!

Lets just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.