The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.

My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.

And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.