As A Playwright, You Are A Torturer

People Are More Easily Manipulated When They Don't Have Information. If You Ensure That Kids Grow Up Without Basic Reading Skills, Math Skills, And So Forth, Then You Ensure That They Can't Act Effectively.

That It Should Be The Questions And Shape Of A Life, Its Total Complexity Gathered, Arranged, And Considered, Which Matters In The End, Not Some Stamp Of Salvation Or Damnation That Disperses All The Complexity Into Some Unsatisfying Little Decision - The Balancing Of Scales.

When I'm Writing A New Play, There's A Period Where I Know I Shouldn't Be Out In Public Much. I Imagine Most People Who Create Go Through Something Like This. You Willfully Loosen Some Of The Inner Straps That Hold Your Core Together.

I Try To Tighten My Heart Into A Knot, A Snarl, I Try To Learn To Live Dead, Just Numb, But Then I See Someone I Want, And It's Like A Nail, Like A Hot Spike Right Through My Chest, And I Know I'm Losing.

You Learn That Existence Is Legible But That You Have To Have A Critical Mind If You're Going To Read It.