Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.

Women who write with an overriding consciousness that they write as women are engaged not in aspiration toward writing, but chiefly in a politics of sex.

The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.

Old saws have no teeth.

I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as a draft. I wrote him a bitter letter: How can you call this a draft? I don't do drafts! By now I've done 18, and its turning, in the rehearsal room, into a 19th.

Time at length becomes justice.