“ In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living. ”

“ I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself. ”

“ The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness. ”

“ On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film. ”

“ For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play. ”