The moment a woman was born determined so much of who she was allowed to become.

Someone could save your life without you ever knowing it. It happened more than most people realized.

Now she saw that marriage was like being in a three-legged race with the same person for the rest of your life. Your hopes, your happiness, your luck, your moods, all yoked to his.

She had learned over time that to know anything was bearable. It was secrecy that could not be borne.

It was amazing that you did not become your grief entirely, and walk about leaking it everywhere.

One of life's contradictions: how human beings were at once entirely resilient and impossibly fragile. One decision could stay with you forever, and yet you could live through almost anything.

There is lonely, and there is alone time. I have found that both have etched character upon my soul.

Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of ideas into thoughts.

What is wrong with you people?

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.

Oh, the humanity.... It was a wonder Rhage hadn't blinded himself with all that pop culture.

If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.

A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old.

When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.

That's possible to likely. We're involved, you and me. I'm telling you what I'm going to do because I figure when people are involved, when they matter, they tell each other.

Persistence is the mother of personal change