With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.

I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.

Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.

From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation.

Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.

If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language.

Rock 'n' roll is just entertainment, and the kids who like to identify their youthful high spirits with a solid beat are thus possibly avoiding other pursuits that could be harmful to them.

I think it's a part of being a citizen in a country, to know what is going on and to have a say in how they want their country being run. You know, that's a part of the privilege of democracy.

It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.

Running for president is the new selfie.

It can be really powerful to write something when youre sad.

Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.