Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.

It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be...Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight.I'm old.

To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.

I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person.

I suspect the fault...is in me: that I hate any job on earth, as a job and a hindrance and a semi-suicide.

I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools.

Simple doesn't mean stupid. Thinking that it does, does.

You must surrender before you can guide.

I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.

Bouncing in the club where the heat is on, All night on the beach till the break of dawn