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

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.

When ''night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.

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

Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.

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

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