When ''night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.

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.

when you know more than you know, there's more to know

It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).

Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient

Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg.

God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that work with the giving of the Gospel!

You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers.

Contradictory strands create an essay that's richly ambivalent.

As a writer I try to operate within a framework of Christian principles, and the words that are important to me are religious words: witness, pilgrimage, intention.