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

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.

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.

Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.

She had a grocer's faith in books

If you do good, you will have some enemies. If you do bad, a lot of people will hate you. Apparently, you are better of with doing good and being at peace with your inner-self.

I started as a director and just fell upon acting.

When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.

Deep rivers run quiet.

A rotten ship is not afraid of the storms!

People got to realize that the owners who been paying me are a lot richer than I am. It's not like I was born rich; I had to play basketball to make this type of money.

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

I can't cook. I don't have the right brain for it, somehow. I can't walk into a room and tidy it up. I get distracted. I pick up one thing and I start looking at it. And my cooking is truly heinous.

I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.