I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing.

I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.