I Like To Surprise Myself.

Cheating Is Not The American Way. It Is Small, While We Are Large. It Is Cheap, While We Are Richly Endowed. It Is Destructive, While We Are Creative. It Is Doomed To Fail, While Our Gifts And Responsibilities Call Us To Achieve. It Sabotages Trust And Weakens The Bonds Of Spirit And Humanity, Without Which We Perish.

In Those Days, You Had To Like One Or The Other. You Couldn't Like Sutherland And Callas.

Technology Promises To Let Us Do Anything From Anywhere With Anyone. But It Also Drains Us As We Try To Do Everything Everywhere. In A Surprising Twist, Relentless Connection Leads To A New Solitude.

Young People Have Got To Start Their Own Theaters, Really. All Good Theater Is A Kind Of Mom-and-pop Operation. Start Your Own Theater.

Work With Good Directors. Without Them Your Play Is Doomed. At The Time Of My First Play, I Thought A Good Director Was Someone Who Liked My Play. I Was Rudely Awakened From That Fantasy When He Directed It As If He Loathed It. . . . Work With Good Actors. A Good Actor Hears The Way You (and No One Else) Write. A Good Actor Makes Rewrites Easy. A Good Actor Tells You Things About Your Play You Didn't Know.