"With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.'"

"Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well."

"Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy."

"Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small."

"I think people would be suprised at how much we curse when we screw up. I'm like somebody with Tourette's Syndrome."

"There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them."

"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom."

"My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time."