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

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

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.

It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.

I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of luck.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

I think we all lose in the end because we don't get to stay here forever.

What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

Ever since (childhood), I realized that one of the coolest things in the game is scoring touchdowns. And I think mentally that still drives me.

You think your congressman is working all day to get you a job? He may want to. He or she is probably not a bad person. They probably want to do the right thing. But they can't.

We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.