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.

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.

Success is always something that you have to recover from.

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

I'm who I was waiting for. I didn't make it.

Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

Only a monomaniac gets anything done.

Hamas is responsible and Hamas will pay.

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.

I've never done a blind date but my parents met on a blind date.

Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.

The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.

We're just taking people and shifting them from taking photos anyway to taking them on Instagram.

I just want to be normal, like everybody else." "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?

My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.