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

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

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 try to interpret how people subjectively experience life. Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays, in a way, are very old-fashioned. They’re pre-Freudian in the sense that the Greeks and Shakespeare worked with similar assumptions. Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important.

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.