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.'

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.

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

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back?

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

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