Trying to lead an interesting life, a fruitful life, is a big challenge.

Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.

If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act.

There are people who...tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it! It's an old tactic of cruel people to kill kindness in the name of virtue.

All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and I got involved in analyzing everyone around me. . . . Eventually, all my friends' eyes began to glaze over when I started talking this way, and I got the hint that there might be something comical in it.

dear god, whose name i do not know. thank you for my life. i forgot... how BIG... thank you. thank you for my life.

Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.