With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.

There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.

Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.

I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy but I don't - life is a blessing.

Technology promises to let us do anything from anywhere with anyone. But it also drains us as we try to do everything everywhere. In a surprising twist, relentless connection leads to a new solitude.

I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.

In those days, you had to like one or the other. You couldn't like Sutherland AND Callas.

I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.

A single minded vision gives strength of purpose.

Exercise and get moving to pump up your endorphins and elevate your mood. Take an adult recess.

Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don't think there is any need for a law against fraud.

The Left needs causes like fish need water

... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.

You won't walk into a store and steal food. But people think it's ok to steal music.

To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.

But sir- we are a beginning democracy. If there were not strikes, this would not be a democracy.