I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off.

Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.

I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work.

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.

It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

True courage is knowing not when to take a life, but to save one.

Springtimeand I wish I knew you

You know I don’t listen to market gossip, ” she began, “but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter’s name is mentioned.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

Your friendship with her-it sleeps with the fishes.

Wealth is not wisdom's goal, but is often wisdom's reward.

Even smiling makes my face ache.

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.