The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.

The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends.

I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.

I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.

As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.

anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a need to write a play.

The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without your even asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

There are more temptations in business than in any other sphere of the society

Mistakes are your milestones, don't let them Stop you! Step up with them.

Your future is your own again. And I consider that to be a happy ending to the story.

First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck.

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me.

This is what heaven's gonna be like. Not just a white church or a black church, but people.

I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.

Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals