You don’t know what’s going to happen in the end, and that’s what the best plays are.

Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.

Serendipity always rewards the prepared.

Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race.

I always felt like Broadway was not for me - in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of the Great White Way.

Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?"All the time.

The important thing is not what they think of me it is what I think of them.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.

My husband says my toes are like Wall's cocktail sausages. He feels peckish whenever he sees them.

It's a dream come true to have someone else portray me. Because I've been living this life for a long time, and I'm over myself.

Being offended is a choice. I believe that. You don't have - you don't hear a word and you have to be offended.

Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much.

The worst thing is when a guy just looks awkward. It's not attractive.

Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight.