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

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.

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.

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.

Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty too.

Happy [is] the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear inexorable fate and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.

Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world... Kindness can change the lives of people.

Every common miracle which the child sees with his own eyes makes of him for the moment another Newton.

Don't be afraid of new arenas.

I don't consider myself a very religious person in any.

The last player to score a hatrick in a cup final was Stan Mortenson. He even had a final named after him, the Matthews final

For me, work is so satisfying and it's giving me so much, it's nurturing me so much, that I think it sort of makes up for the sleep depravation.

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductible logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second part, on inductive logic, they are committed.