Eric Bogosian

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me. ”

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic. ”

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib. ”

I love playing other people's work. I love acting. ”

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently. ”

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself. ”

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy. ”

If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest. ”

For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me. ”

The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well. ”