When you're the artsy, weirdo, introverted outsider growing up, you don't fit into your community.

I've always viewed 'Sons of the Prophet' as the first part of a larger trilogy - not three plays dependent on each other but three stand-alone plays connected by theme and, likely, further adventures of the Douaihy family.

Under Todd Haimes' leadership, Roundabout created a black-box theater whose sole mission was to house premieres by writers who are just starting out and have zero name recognition.

My own journey as a writer has been the discovery of different theatrical voices. Chekhov was a revelation. Tennessee Williams was another one. We read 'The Glass Menagerie' in high school, and I still remember the cover.

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.

We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .