The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

It is not enough ... simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.

Trust is fine, but control is better.

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

Hope is the spotlight that shines on the mine fields of possibility

We have it in ourselves to do what we are meant to do.

How inappropriate, ’ Lila said coldly. ‘Who’d ever dream of showing up at a dance in a wheelchair? What does she think she’s going to do all night?

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.

1 Give to the world the best you have I and the best will come back to you.

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing.

A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes good business sense.

Is it my sweat that's no longer sweet?

I do not believe in the creed professed by any church that I know of. Each of these churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my part, I disbelieve them all.