Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero.

Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.

Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

Very often in Chekhov, where he exhibits a little bit of human behavior that you recognize as true, you give a little laugh. It's like a reflex.

I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It was grounded on some fundamental certainties - axioms - that led to others.