Serendipity always rewards the prepared.

Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.

Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

You don’t know what’s going to happen in the end, and that’s what the best plays are.

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race.

I always felt like Broadway was not for me - in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of the Great White Way.

In that moment I found a power beyond any I'd had before, a will and a determination I would never have need if not for Lucinda, a fortitude I hadn't been able to find for a lesser cause.

Mom, Dad, I’m fourteen, I see what the world is like. And, no, I did not get this from the psychologist...I came to this understanding on my own, from what I really see in myself and about life.

If you want to know what you are attracting, look around you!

There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.

Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.

C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.

Saturday Night Live was a show that I never thought I would be on, because I didn't do sketch comedy and I didn't do impressions. I was a stand-up.

I am not intimidating. I am a woman's woman. I love hanging out with women. And people are really inspired by this show.

Suspense is worst than disappointment.

I often pay homeless people to come round and clean my car.