Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

Write about the thing that frightens you most.

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a role for them. You write it fairly quickly, and it becomes a group activity before you're really ready to have company.

The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.