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

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.

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.

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.

What I really value about being a writer is that I can go to rehearsal when I want to, and then, when I need to be at home writing or with my kids, I go home.

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.