Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.

So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere.

From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.

I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.

I've worked really hard, but I know people who have worked even harder but didn't have the chances I've had.

I dont want to work on a musical if Im not the lyricist.

My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity.

I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am it somehow found its way into it.

I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly.

Perfection is inexistent. It is the short-lived joy of muddling in the dips of a superficial life in a bid to bury who we really are.

Unfinished promises are the one thing we’ll always have to live with.

Happiness consists of living in the dailyness of life and not knowing how happy you are.

I think honestly, believe it or not, that Dude, Where's My Car? in a way represents its time better than almost any film made around that.

When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.

I'm as fond of my body as anyone, but if I can be 200 with a body of silicon, I'll take it.

[John D. Rockefeller] didn't care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.

Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories.

Why, in a country of free speech, are there phone bills?

All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.