I Have An Enormous Appetite

You're Always Fighting The Contradiction Between The Supposed Intimacy Of A Two-person Conversation And The Blunt Reality That You're Trying To Sell The Play To People Who Are Sitting Maybe Too Far Away From You.

It Is Hard Enough To Make A Plan For How You Are Going To Spend An Evening With Somebody Else. So To Make A Plan For How You Are Going To Behave In 25 Years Seems Based On A View Of Life That Is Incomprehensible To Me.

I Sincerely Believe That If Bush And Cheney Recognized The Full Humanity Of Other People's Mothers Around The World, They Wouldn't Commit The Crimes They Commit.

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.

"the Fever" Is A One-person Play. I Decided I Would Perform It Myself, And I Decided I Would Not Perform It In Theaters, Because The Character In The Play Says Certain Things That I Meant.