I Work Best After The Deadline Has

Torture Yourself About Your Failures. And Then Get Back To Work.

If You Know That Life Is Basically Going To Be Horrendously Difficult, At Best, And All But Unlivable At Worst, Or Possibly Even Unlivable, Do You Go On? And The Choice To Go On Is The Only Thing That I Think Can Be Called Hope. Because If Hope Isn't Forced To Encounter The Worst Possibility, Then It's A Lie.

Gay Writers Now Have Both A Sense Of History And The Fables That Allows Them To Dwell In The Realms Of The Ridiculous And At The Same Time Talk Seriously About Things.

The Big Influence On Me Was Robert Altman, Who, Especially In 'nashville,' Transformed My Sense Of Dramatic Structure And Showed How You Could Handle Overlapping Stories.

I Don't Write Political Plays In The Sense That I'm Writing Essays That Are Kind Of Disguised As Plays. I Would Really Defy Anyone To Watch Any Of My Plays And Say 'well, Here's The Point.'