No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how close the bonds of affection and friendship might be within same-sex couples, there is no act of court or Congress that can make these relationships the same as the coupling between a man and a woman.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else.

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.