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

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.

Attachment parenting is this theory that if you wear your baby around and you sleep with your baby and you breast-feed for a long time, the baby will be more attached to you.

Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic.

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.

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.

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