Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.

I'd rather be nine people's favorite thing than a hundred people's ninth favorite thing.

Your boss takes a dim view of SEX?

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that.But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.

My early attempts writing plays, which are very poetic, did not use the language that I work in now. I didn't recognize the poetry in everyday language of black America. I thought I had to change it to create art.