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.

Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing you'll ever have to do again.

The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.

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

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.

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.