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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.