I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated.

One knows one's done one's job as a parent properly if one's children reject everything one stands for.

I'm less confident now than I've ever been. In this peculiar craft, confidence is something you spend a lifetime losing. I used to be frightened only one night a week but now I'm frightened of every performance. I mean really frightened.

It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

Motherhood is the most dangerous and awesome relationship possible. ... The parent/child blood relationship is one-sided and irrevocable and enduring. And it is all rather humbling.

a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's words provide very little clue. On the contrary, words are notoriously imprecise and open to every kind of interpretation, so you must search.

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.