Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation.

Flirting with death is the spice of life.

Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as reproduction.

I am the sun who will bring delight when you are in-front of me. I am the moon who will show shyness when you are away from me.

My words are like Mummy: butterflies trapped inside a net.

The more I accomplish the more I realize how empty my life is.

I'm no lady; I'm a member of Congress, and I'll proceed on that basis.

When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play. I could write dialogue, but I just sort of failed beyond that, and kind of went wherever I wanted to go.

None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.

The problem is, I can’t tell what’s real anymore, and what’s made up.

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.

Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.