The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.

being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.

I wrote my first play, Uncommon Women and Others, in the hopes of seeing an all-female curtain call in the basement of the Yale School of Drama. A man in the audience stood up during a post show discussion and announced, “I can't get into this, it's all about girls.” I thought to myself, “Well, I've been getting in to Hamlet and Laurence of Arabia my whole life, so you better start trying.”

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.

No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.

I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.