Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

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.

If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

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

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

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

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.