Every year I resolve to be a little less the me I know and leave a little room for the me I could be. Every year I make a note not to feel left behind by my friends and family who have managed to change far more than I.

Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you say, Well, I'm going to write this because I think that you're going to like this and therefore you'll buy a ticket for this.

anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a need to write a play.

The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends.

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