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It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and Ibsen and Shakespeare, but what it is to be a playwright, to be interacting with human beings in the live theater and affect people on such a direct, emotional level.

Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight.

As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.

To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.

One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.