My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity.

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.

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.

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.

Good luck is the expression of your divinity within.

Conversation often becomes mere verbal performance and oral horseplay rather than fair-minded communication. (“Juicy rumours “)

If you don't have an emotionally engaging design for a device, no one will care about it.

No extraordinary result ever came from mediocre effort.

If we did go into a recession, something that's always possible for the U.S. or Europe, we could lower interest rates and expand the money supply without worrying about the price of gold.

I want to make smart television.

I've always suggested if you can't stand the sight of your own blood, don't run for office.

We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves

Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.

The most reliable joy is to be out of doors, to be a creature among other creatures. I find it very restful.