As Writers, We Can't Predict

I Don't See That Many Plays, And For Me, Musicals Are Rarely Pleasing. I Feel The Actors Are Being Put Through A Kind Of Nightmarish Labor. They're Like Animals Being Forced To Pull Heavy Carts Of Vegetables At Incredible Speeds.

I Choose Parts Because I Don't Want To Be Embarrassed When The Movie Comes Out. What If My Friends Were To See The Movie? What If My Niece Or Nephew Wandered Into The Theater And Saw The Movie? I Don't Want To Be Too Ashamed Of It.

For Some Reason, People Find Me Funny. It's Quite Hard To Define Why A Thought Is Funny. It's Even Harder To Define Why A Person Would Be Funny. It's A Word That I Can't Define At All. But Whether I Know Quite What It Is Or Not, I Seem To Be It.

We're In An Emergency Situation. The United States Has Become An Absolutely Terrifying Country, And I Would Hope That I Could Participate In Some Way In Stopping The Horror And The Brutality.

What I'm Really Involved In When I'm Writing Is Something That No One Ever Mentions When They See Any Play. Writing Is Like Trying To Make Gunpowder Out Of Chemicals. You Have These Words And Sentences And The Strange Meanings And Associations That Are Attached To The Words And Sentences, And You're Somehow Cooking These Things All Up So That They Suddenly Explode And Have A Powerful Effect. That's What Absorbs Me From Day To Day In Writing A Play.