This Isn't Champagne Anymore. We Went Through

People Talk About The 1960s In A Nostalgic Way, But To Me It Was Terrifying. People Were Getting Assassinated. There Was Vietnam. There Were Race Riots. It Felt Like Everything Was Going To Get Blown Up Sky-high. It Didn’t Feel Like Flower Power. It Felt Like Armageddon.

I Feel Very Lucky And Privileged To Be A Writer. I Feel Lucky In The Sense That I Can Branch Out Into Prose And Tell Different Kinds Of Stories And Stuff. But Being A Writer Is So Great Because Youre Literally Not Dependent On Anybody.

When I First Started, I Didn't Really Know How To Structure A Play. I Could Write Dialogue, But I Just Sort Of Failed Beyond That, And Kind Of Went Wherever I Wanted To Go.

The Funny Thing About Having All This So-called Success Is That Behind It Is A Certain Horrible Emptiness.

Democracy's A Very Fragile Thing. You Have To Take Care Of Democracy. As Soon As You Stop Being Responsible To It And Allow It To Turn Into Scare Tactics, It's No Longer Democracy, Is It? It's Something Else. It May Be An Inch Away From Totalitarianism.