I'm Not A Poet. I Wish I

I Think That It's Worthwhile To Explore The Ways In Which You Write The Person That's Writing Your Plays As Opposed To Simply Assuming That It's All A Natural Process And There's No Design In It. Because Your Public Persona Is Designed, To A Certain Extent, And You Can Have Fun And Profit At Various Times Doing That.

I Grew Up In A Small Southern Town, And There Were White People And Black People. Coming To New York To Go To Columbia, Every Time I Went Into The Subway I Was Absolutely Astounded Because You See People From All Over The World Who Actually Live Here - Who Aren't Just Here As Tourists.

I Don't Feel, Finally, That My Politics Are Entirely Determined By The Fact That I'm A Gay Man.

The Kind Of Theater That I Do Is Sort Of ‘narrative Realism,’ Which I Think In The Broadest Sense Is Legitimate To Say Is Mainstream. I Mean, In A Certain Sense, Suzan-lori's Plays Have Had Mainstream Levels Of Success. But Suzan-lori Is In Some Ways Not A Narrative Realist.

One Has To Have A Complicated Kind Of Optimism. You Can't Refuse To Look At How Horrible Things Are.