All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.

Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.

Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.

I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority.

The only recognizable feature of hope is action.

There is magic everywhere around you, but most people are too busy being grownup to notice it.

I'm thinking there should be a dating site called "Tap That" - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy

God entrusts His riches to mature sons and not to spiritual babies.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

The past is just something that's over.

I don't feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.

In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.

Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.

I don't get up, get dressed, go out, and think, 'Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.'

I think the most interesting thing about any story is how people change. That's usually a struggle, because change is pretty much an uncomfortable thing.