At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.

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.

The more you go with the flow of life and surrender the outcome to God, and the less you seek constant clarity, the more you will find that fabulous things start to show up in your life.

An animal in pain is the saddest thing on Earth.

Yeah! Bring it on lake!" -Coach Gleeson Hedge

I think my mother realized she had a somewhat unusual daughter pretty early on.

If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.

Learn how to ignore the examples from others when they are wrong, because few skills are more worth having.

2001 King of the Ring? I really like the sound of that! That REEKS OF ROYALTY! So begins the ERA OF AWESOMENESS!

You might be a redneck if you think Silence of the Lambs is what happens when Larry walks out to the barn.

Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand when I was young are dead, but I still reach out to them.

Take a new look at your present "impossible." Consider positive ways to handle it.