I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

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.

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.

Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.

Through the dry phases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action.

Advice to artists: always take the opportunity to shut up.

She had of course, kept working. He liked to think she would have moved under the table to continue her task if a gun battle had broken out, but he wasn't sure.

In the United States these days, 'diversity' is a big word and a buzzword.

She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings.

I don't have any concerns about my weight. I've always been healthy. I eat right. I'm just a big dude. I've always been happy with the person I am. So that will never change.

I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.

There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.

43.7 per cent of all statistics are made up on the spot.