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

Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.

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.

When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with.

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.

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?