I Was Clever Enough To

I Don't See That Many Plays, And For Me, Musicals Are Rarely Pleasing.

I Grew Up. I Began To Think The United States Had Some Problems That Really Required The Help Of Artistic People To Solve. And I Gave Myself Permission To Be A Writer Instead Of A Civil Servant.

I Do Things, And Other People Laugh At Them. I Rarely Know What The Joke Is Supposed To Be Or Why They're Laughing.

In Real Life, Every Person Is The Leading Man Or Woman. We Don't Think Of Ourselves As Supporting Or Character Actors.

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.