People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

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.

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

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

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.'

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

I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used.