When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with.

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.

Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.

Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.

As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more time with my friends, more time with my family, my extended family. I always want to read more books.

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

Engineers turn dreams into reality.

Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer.

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys

I hate this phrase, but it's a "can do" attitude [that's important] that, whatever you do in life, you should have.