After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no one would produce anything of mine they didn't think would be as big as ''night, Mother.'

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

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

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

After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no one would produce anything of mine they didn't think would be as big as ''night, Mother.'

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

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.