Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

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.

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.

Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.

Your targets can only be realized on the basis of dreams.

Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'

I want to take time to understand life. I want to travel. I want to be a better person, a better Mom. I want to do something good with my life.

My doctor was like, 'Any questions?' And I was like, 'Yes! When can I drink please?!' I just want a margarita.

Gabe?" The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love", Jonas whispered.

He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.

Following takes why. Transactions take what. It has to be real. It has to be the same for writing a book.

In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing.

There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.