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

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.

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

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.

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.

The Concept of Internal and External Stressor is a Misnomer. All Stress is Created Finally Through an Internal Mechanism Mediated by Our Thoughts.

I don’t need to sow any damn oats. What are you two, the supernatural version of Thelma and Louise?” “Hardly, ” Talia scoffed. “This car is a classic. No way would I drive it off a cliff.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.

When ladies used to come to me in dreams, I said, 'Pretty mother, pretty mother.' But when at last she really came, I shot her.

There is no stranger under the cherry tree.

I love you. Remember. And someday, I will find you again.