Writers Are Opposite Of Athletes,

Education Is The Silver Bullet. Education Is Everything. We Don't Need Little Changes, We Need Gigantic, Monumental Changes. Schools Should Be Palaces. The Competition For The Best Teachers Should Be Fierce. They Should Be Making Six-figure Salaries. Schools Should Be Incredibly Expensive For Government And Absolutely Free Of Charge To Its Citizens, Just Like National Defense. That's My Position. I Just Haven't Figured Out How To Do It Yet.

I Got Into Dialogue Because My Parents Began Taking Me To See Plays From When I Was Very Young. Too Young, Often, To Understand The Play I Was Watching: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf When I Was Nine Years Old; That Championship Season When I Was Ten Years Old. But I Loved The Sound Of Dialogue; It Sounded Like Music To Me And I Wanted To Imitate That Sound.

My Resting Pulse As A Writer Is Writing Idealistically And Romantically; Aspirationally. My Taste Lies In Quixotic Heroes.

As A Dramatist, You're Looking For Points Of Friction.

We Live In A World That Has Walls, And Those Walls Have To Be Guarded By Men With Guns.