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" I let action rise out of character, really. "

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" I have admiration for people who can do it well - the guys who wrote 'Cheers' and 'Frasier.' They created sort of a blissful comedic universe. "

" I go to museums. I buy art, even. You should see my house; we don't have any wall space left. "

" The audience just doesn't care. They are just as interested in women-centric stories as they are in stories about men. "

" Is the American theatre allowing itself to become irrelevant? The problem isn't that playwrights aren't being paid enough. It's that theatres all over America are looking towards New York to tell them what new plays to do. "

" Show business is a struggle. I certainly wish that I had just blasted on the scene and not had quite such a hard time. But there's a great sense of the relief in that you don't have to prove yourself anymore. "

" I do believe that there are monsters out there - and that they are monsters. "

" I have spent my whole life working in the theater, and most of the people I know have done the same. And we are pretty interesting people. "

" Why is it so hard for men to identify with women as fellow travelers on this good Earth? "

" I make my life with New York stage actors, and I love them. They're the best actors on planet earth. "

" When I go to Ohio to visit relatives on holidays, I am often astonished by the level of casual dismissal offered up by way of discussion. "

" My son is a musician who next year will be attending the LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City, which his mother helped him get into by making him practice all the time. "

" I'm not ashamed of being American; I'm very proud. "

" In the theater, there's an emphasis on the singular voice. You know, it's your play. And in television, there's so much institutional involvement. So you end up having to negotiate with a lot of people, and that provides a kind of wear and tear on the spirit. "

" Rarely do I try to pull a creature out of life and make it a character. "

" Heath Ledger's recent death, like that of River Phoenix, was handled with great care by the press. Anna Nicole Smith's not so much. "

" That stupid postmodern emphasis on image over content has slammed us right into a dramaturgy that willfully leaves the audience behind and then resents the fact that they don't 'get it.' "

" Theater can be elusive and poetic, but it doesn't thrive when it doesn't reach an audience. "

" New York was the Promised Land growing up. Writers were gods! The great gods of American culture... I thought. "

" Some of my family goes back a long way in Denver. "

" It's not my responsibility to write plays about the way the world should be. "

" In America, the average playwright makes less than a receptionist in a non-profit theatre. We don't have decent health insurance - or any health insurance at all. "

" I think we have a cultural difficulty with looking at our problems. "

" I actuall have to defend realism in theatre because I think TV does it badly - so corrupted by layers of bureaucrats who want to leave examination or psychology. "

" Moliere and Arthur Miller affected me at a very young age. In adulthood, I became overwhelmed by Chekhov. Those are my big theatrical influences. "

" We have this powerful ideological basis to the country that I don't think any other country in the world quite can brag about. It's a very complicated nation, and it's very fertile. "

" Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity. "

" The myth that theater isn't for everybody is total nonsense. In the 18th and 19th centuries, everybody in America used to go to the theater all the time. The shows they went to see were big, crazy melodramas that had careening storylines and houses burning down and pretty girls in danger and comedy and death and destruction. "

" I'm an impatient person. "

" Everyone pays lip service to this whole idea of doing more new plays, and nobody ever does it. "