I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations start in.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.

[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.