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

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

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.

Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.

We ain't dependent on social media to reveal our faith and joy. It shows from inside out, for real.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

The voice of the people is the voice of God. (Vox populi vox dei.)

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

We cannot solve the problems of America if every time somebody somewhere says something stupid, that everybody gets up in arms and we forget about the war in Iraq or we forget about the economy.

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

Math and science were my favorite subjects besides theater.

Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.