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

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

We all exist in relation to the world, our partners, the human race.

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 would never be essentialist about sexuality and structure, but I do think there's a way in which this male-arc has been talked about as the only structure, and kind of a stand-in for even the word structure, instead of looking at other forms.

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.

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.