I don't know what will happen to me without you. Only you. Only you love me. Out of everyone in the world.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support myself as a playwright at this point. I don’t think anybody does.

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.

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

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

life is not about being fearless its about controlling your fears

Perfectionists are patient, the diligent are persevering, and the relentless are successful.

Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.

You never know how diverse your career can be. I think it's wonderful. My life has always been the next page, not the last page.

Earlier this year I had my hair feng-shuied.

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make something of myself worth giving.

You can't take no Chinese man and give him no Puerto Rican woman and talking like they're in love and emotionally in love and physically.

They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.

The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact.