Keep Away From Fantasy. Shake Off The

Ideas Emerge From Plays, Not The Other Way Around.

[rewriting Is] A Whole Other Art Form; It's About Craftsmanship.

In Many Of My Plays, There Was A Kind Of Autobiographical Character In The Form Of A Son Or Young Man. The Purpose Of It, Of Course, Was To Write About Myself. That Character Was Always The Least Fully Realized. Eighteen Years Later, You Realize, That's What He Was About.

Beginnings Are Definitely The Most Exciting, Middles Are Perplexing And Endings Are A Disaster.

There's Gonna Be A General Lack Of Toast In The Neighborhood This Morning.