Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.

Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away.

If you look at most womens writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writers description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. Theyre looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.

I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.

There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree.

I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.

People will do anything, anything, for a really nice laugh.