I'm a firm believer that it's not the way you look or what you have, but what you've got inside.
I can't write about rich people having relationship problems and breaking up in New York. I don't know that world of Terrence McNally. I knew I had to write people who talk the way I talk. And they talked very different than Terrence McNally.
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.