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The world doesn't owe anyone a living—including veterans.
You're looking at a guy who has no reason to complain about anything.
The Lord doesn't want anybody in His house who has to be dragged there.
I hate Sunday, and I don't think I'll ever get over it. But I'm going to try.
I sometimes like to sit in the silence and darkness and listen to my heart shine.
Young men who have been away, been to war, they are different when they come home.
I don't believe in updating. If a play works, it draws something from being true to its time.
The way plays happen, at least with me, it's spontaneous combustion of things you've had in your head.
I remember how I would wait for a play idea. I wasted a tremendous amount of time. I didn't realize that ideas could be made into movies or novels.
You reach a time... when fact and fiction blend seamlessly. If you do it too soon, it's journalism. If you do it too late, you forget, and it's fantasy. There's an optimum time.
I'd like to walk into a room sometime and be introduced as the author of something other than that play. There's always one thing in a career that has more impact than anything else. In my case, 'The Subject Was Roses' was that thing.