"I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down."

"I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont."

"I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore."

"Writing is my primary way of expressing myself."

"Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear."

"Then trust me there's nothing like drinking, So pleasant on this side of the grave: It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes e'en the valiant more brave."

"Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore."

"The canvas of imagination has no boundaries except those imposed by fear. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."