I am a good woman. I know it.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have to distort toward a symbolic construction of what happened, and as that distortion takes place, you begin to leave out and overemphasize and consequently deliver up life as a unity rather than as a chaos, and any such attempt, the more intense it is, the more poetic it becomes.

Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain.

The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.