I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.

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

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

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.

Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.

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.

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.

It was scary to think of happily ever after. It was scary to think about trusting someone enough to give him your heart now, hoping he wouldn't break it later.

SNL is a home. You've got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it's a great time.

If we think of the field as being removed, there is no 'space' which remains, since space does not have an independent existence.

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

Humor, danger and a twisted tangle of unlikely prophecies make for a page-turning adventure.

When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.

I'm often prone to self-doubt about everything I do.

I wanted to make a lot of good pitches.

Find out where the ball is, get there; hit it.

It's impossible to do something cool without outraging someone. In fact, I usually judge how cool I'm being by how many angry people are following me with signs.