People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.

Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.

What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play.

I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.

I'm still very much a believer in the spontaneity of certain kinds of writing. But then you have to eventually, when you're writing a long play, make adjustments along the way - all kinds of adjustments.

To sit on a ranch horse that's been broken in, it's like getting in a Porsche.