If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing.

Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.

If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing.

All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton.

I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.

Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get into another character's shoes and experience things both mundane and tragic. And people don't - like me right now - people aren't necessarily the most eloquent when trying to express their emotions. I guess I feel as a playwright that those people deserve a voice, too, a voice that isn't so articulate that they themselves can no longer identify with it.

We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.