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The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.

I'm one of the writers that would die if I didn't say what I needed to say. For me, it's a matter of survival to write.

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

I write because I know that one day I will die, and thus I should experience as many deliberate observations, careful thoughts, wild ideas, and deep emotions as I can before that day occurs.

If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.

In the end, one has to feel lucky that things fell out O.K. I've felt that all the years I've been writing plays.