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My responsibility is to present things in a way that is realistic and true to the multifaceted world I've known... This is how I think the world is, not how it should be.

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.

If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play.

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.

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

Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope.

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.

I always feel a responsibility to the people I write about. I feel obligated to portray them in the way they feel is proper.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.