I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.
“Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.”
“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.”