I feel that I speak the musical language.

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.

To lose awareness of what is helpful or harmful in the worldly life is moh (Illusory vision & attachment).

I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.

When I opened the world's largest Internet cafe, certified by the 'Guinness Book of Records, ' in Times Square in New York, I was live on 'Good Morning America, ' and for me, that was an achievement.

I was always influenced by language.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

There are only two questions about government. How much do you want? How much can you stand?

In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.

People hide the truth because they're afraid.

I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.