During the day, our souls gather their ... impressions of us, how our lives feel. ... Our spirits collect these impressions, keep them together, like wisps of smoke in a bag. Then, when we're asleep, our brains open up these bags of smoke ... and take a look.

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

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.

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.

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

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

No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it work. But I can stop it. Shut it down, turn it off like the radio when there's nothing on I want to listen to. It's all I really have that belongs to me and I'm going to say what happens to it. And it's going to stop. And I'm going to stop it. So. Let's just have a good time.