Success is always something that you have to recover from.

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.

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.

A wise man is able to differentiate between humility and weakness, he does not mistake courage for pride.

Today was very full, but the problem isn't today. It's tomorrow. I'd be able to recover from today if it weren't for tomorrow. There should be extra days, buffer days, between real days.

The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures. Lady Macbeth

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot.

But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty

I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.

I'm kind of a 'Fix-It Felix' video girl. I like the simpler, sweeter kind of games.

I had an incredible experience living in New York, playing for the Yankees, to go through all of the things I did, including the no-hitter. It was a very memorable time.

I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up.