Peole do think that if they avoid the truth it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

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.

Men want to be known and loved for who they are by women.

Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.

They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.

Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be.

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

I've made many good friends in bodybuilding, though there are few I'd trust to oil my back.

The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated.

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.