What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back?

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.

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.

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

The problem with all of you is you think in isolation instead of realizing we are one community, when one of us falls, we all fall.

When the headlines get black and foreboding, the sale of alcohol and barbiturates rises in the country, as millions try to escape from the grim realities of [such] dangers.

Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?

People need to deviate away from the role of imitation, and start filling the role of innovation...

Simply by living in this particular time and space, you're doing something nearly 100% of all other humans ever never could. Don't waste it.

And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Activate your fans, don’t just collect them like baseball cards.

When a man loves a woman, he'll spend his very last dime tryin' to hold on to what he needs.

We're covering all our bases so we can do whatever we want next time. That's how we're looking at it, rather than this just being an endless number of album/tour cycles.