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

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

Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us.

I think theatre is a democratic act and I think writing a play is not a democratic act. I think we should give writers more leeway and space to write the thing they want to write, and then we should produce the play, multiple times, and let them re-write it.

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.

A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre.

This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.