Plays are architecture, and you can make them stand in many ways that are hard to describe. And, I think, in our limited ability to describe them, we've substituted our inarticulateness for saying that there's one and only one structure.

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.

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

There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.

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

I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.

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