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I started writing my own plays, and I would sell out, but after everything was said and done, I'd break even. That's being successful.

It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don't want to spend my life being angry.

I'm always writing or playing because that is my life.

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism.

I've done nothing with my life but write plays.

If your purpose is to make money, you shouldn't get into writing.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

I think when you start talking about money, it stops the whole creative process for me.

Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.

That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing.