You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist which quite a lot of playwrights especially playwrights younger than me have become guilty of.
The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis the balance of power war and peace and the economic future of the next generation.
