I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

I never had a lot of ideas. I always have exactly one that is the next project; the idea of a project beyond that project is ludicrous.

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.

Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.

I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.

There are certain early plays of mine that I really don't like, but I can't imagine going back and fixing them. I would be totally incapable of it. I'm not in the head of the characters anymore.

If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

Cats don't think they're owned by anybody. Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they're free. Always. That may, in fact, be the most important thing about them.

There comes a time in every Salome's life when she should no longer be dropping the last veil.

I don't do acid anymore, so I travel instead.

The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies in the protection of economic security.

I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music

If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be. I think of dieting, then I eat pizza. I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier — unfortunately.

My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy.

To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn.

I think doing something that's different, that's out of your comfort zone is important.

I have a healthy sense of vanity. I like to look good for myself, which is what a lot of women say. I want to stay fit.