The playwright is a type-rope walker trying not to fall off the thread of language that runs from experience into symbol.
The best satire is totally non-moral and constitutes an attempt to understand how we bear being ourselves, how we put up with ourselves, how we get along with ourselves and each other. The funniest parts of plays are when characters are cheering themselves up.
Leopardi writes that the morning is youth and the evening is the beginning of old age when you see your illusions shattered.
I woke up this morning very early for the first time in a very long time having fallen asleep earlier than I'm used to last night, having been worn completely down by my writing schedule. I think the strangest thing is that when I have mornings to myself, I don't do much of them anymore. I remember when I was 22 and I first moved to New York, I'd wake up at 6am and write before my roommates woke up and then go back to bed. I didn't keep that up for very long, but it was really a holy feeling, a sacred ritual.