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

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.

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.

There is no point in trying to remember your dreams ... There is only the unspeakable joy of eavesdropping on your spirit, catching tiny glimpses of its independent life, resting for a moment in its wisdom, puzzling, laughing sometimes, over what it's up to, what it makes of you.

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

There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.

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