Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

on the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.

I feel that I speak the musical language.

When ''night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.

No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it work. But I can stop it. Shut it down, turn it off like the radio when there's nothing on I want to listen to. It's all I really have that belongs to me and I'm going to say what happens to it. And it's going to stop. And I'm going to stop it. So. Let's just have a good time.

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

There are days when I think the National Endowment for the Arts should issue a quota system for the production of plays by women - especially when you realize women buy 70 percent of all theater tickets.