There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support myself as a playwright at this point. I don’t think anybody does.

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.

The world is a contradiction

Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?""Kiss a cow farm boy

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.

Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

For a moment, Percy actually remembered what it was like to be happy. He had an amazing girlfriend. They could have a future together.

It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.

It is in between your thoughts, where you will discover your greatest FLOW from Spirit.