Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process.

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the rhetoric has become so heated, that conversation is almost impossible.

In art as in life, some things need no translation.

In the beginning Man created God and in the image of Man created he him.

If you can remember why you started, then you will know why you must continue.

I have always loved clothes, and the opportunity to design my own line could not be missed. It's a dream job.

Dogs in America get more affection than women in most Third World countries.

Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.

I was proud to work with the great Gershwin, and I would have done it for nothing, which I did.

Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn't do it and didn't really want to.

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them.

All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down.