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I think what helps me when I'm working on a play, any play, is the degree to which the writer has truly visualized, and then fulfilled, the vision of the world that he or she is creating.

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.

I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.

You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.

Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm here for, so I'd better do it.

When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.

A play is a passion.

Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.