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

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

Success is always something that you have to recover from.

We are not afraid to look under the bed, or to wash the sheets; we know that life is messy. We know that somebody has to clean it up, and that only if it is cleaned up can we hope to start over, and get better.

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.'

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.