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.

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.

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.

To enjoy inner joy and happiness, let us use our conscience to create peace and harmony in this world.

You are everything you should be, and all that is enough. Be proud of who you are, and love who you will become.” – Lady Lalaigne to Nhakira, “Chosen

You own your feelings. You own your thoughts. You control both. No one has the right to any of it—to any of you without your permission.

Death is what happens when you die.

Life is never quite like the brochure.

The Chinese, the Russians, the Nazis and Saddam Hussein all agree! Gun Control Works!

In speaking the truth of your experience to another, it will serve you well to realize that how they choose to respond is not your responsibility.

I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

Notice what happens when you follow your intuitive feelings. The result is usually increased energy and power, and a sense of things flowing.

If you are not at peace with yourself then you cannot spread peace.