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Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much.

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.

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.

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

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 keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.

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

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

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.