If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

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.

The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine

I’m glad we can be friends.”There’s that word again. It’s like a safe word.

I blamed the Bible, when its words were not at fault, only the way they’re interpretedby those too willingto wield them like chain saws, cutting others off at the knees.

Hate obscures all distinctions.

Celebrate the Ides of March but remember your own warnings less as Caesar learned, you can get killed in many ways

Are you better off with him or without him?

Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

I used to take culinary arts at Job Corps so I'm a certified chef. I could cook chicken alfredo.

Everyone who was ever told a fairytale knows what happens to women who do their own magic.

I have traveled to all the continents except for one, and I know what is going on out there... The world is rapidly becoming Ahmadinejadized.