“All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the...” — Denis Johnson Quote

“All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.”

“I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.”

“If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.”

“Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.”

“Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.”

“To see a musical with mostly black actors, even at 10 I knew that was special.”