“I don't know how to produce work if it's not something that's deeply s...” — Stephen Karam Quote

I don't know how to produce work if it's not something that's deeply scaring me or troubling me.

I think being gay has resulted in gay characters standing front and center in all of my work.

I like going absurd pretty quickly. You don't waste any time when you're doing theater of the ridiculous.

Because I didn't go to graduate school or have mentorship out of college, meeting other playwrights and developing those friendships as a result of being a 'grown up' playwright - that's become an essential community for me. My contemporaries are all my mentors whether they know it or not.

To see professional actors do my work, to take it seriously - that was the thing that made me think playwriting could actually be what I do. It's not a profession that has some sort of clear career track, like, 'This is what you do to be a playwright.'

I'm deeply impatient. If I can't park directly in front of somewhere, I go home.

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

Nixon had this remarkably effective, deeply intense will to power. Reagan and I have a will to ideas.

Survival should be the number one goal, states can have all sorts of goals that are deeply immoral or unethical. But that doesn't mean they're irrational.

I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.