We all exist in relation to the world, our partners, the human race.

It's a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture.

I do think there's a relationship between a book and a reader that's more intimate, in many ways, than the relationship between an audience member and a play - just by the nature of it being an object that you can have in bed with you and that you can keep and page through.

I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane.

It was important to me that people know that you can make plays and raise children at the same time - for other mothers, for other parents, for other women considering having children and who want to be working and thinking and contemplating and making things while they're raising children.

I see, in women friends, a really dangerous phenomenon where it seems they reach a certain age and become invisible.

The director was only invented in the nineteenth century. So directors have only been around for 200 year,s and playwrights have been around since Sophocles and Euripides.