The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough.

I am a good woman. I know it.

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

A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.

The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty with the set, which required too much effort to move around. Having gotten the benefit of seeing it done once, I wanted to work on the script, to make it sharper and more pointed.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.