I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.

Just because it’s a unique perspective doesn’t mean it can’t offer something universal.

I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don't do it?' I said, 'I think you're wrong.'

In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.

A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.

Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.

It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.

Each play I write has its own unique origin story.

I need a release from whatever I'm writing.

When the play is still evolving I try to be at rehearsal as often as possible, and part of that casting process. You find new things when the language is living in different people's mouths.

Come, let us build bridges of love with each other with the cement of kindness and pillars of trust.

We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough.

The industry now wants to be in charge of everything.

I'm a good friend of Jonah Lehrer's. You should go on a date with him.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move.

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life.

Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.

We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons.