I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

on the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

Write about the thing that frightens you most.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

Success is always something that you have to recover from.

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.

I'm who I was waiting for. I didn't make it.

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I loved the angiogram. They stick a thing in your thigh and it goes all the way up to your heart. Isn't that a thrill? Well, at least the nurse scored thigh.

A fool with a tool is still a fool.

To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.

There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.

All human actions are an attempt to meet needs.

I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.

I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

You can never tell you the mountain will allow and who it will not.