People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

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.

Falling in love is not a rational process. It can't be planned or avoided. It happens--for good or bad it simply happens. - Katrina Svensen

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Without love, life is empty and has no beauty.

Everything wrong I've ever done has always seemed like the right thing to do at the time.

I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.

If imitation is the greatest form of flattery, Punk, don't flatter me.

Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.

It does grieve me to think there are people misunderstanding my heart on an issue.

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

I begin by imagining the impossible and end by accomplishing the impossible.