The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.

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.

The focus is faith.

Leaders create influence with the clays of criticism others throw at them. They don't take offence

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

Through uninhibited relationship with God you are empowered to function

Education is the mother of leadership.

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.

When you have trust and you get that trust in place throughout the company, people are empowered — people are free.

I'm not very disciplined. I tend to write late at night because I get distracted during the day.

These days most women have jobs that last way too long. A lot of people in New York barely have time to get laid.

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.