on the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue..

We have to hear the stories of women at all ages of their lives in order to really present a picture of what it felt like to be alive in our time. Th….

The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is rea….

After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no ….

Success is always something that you have to recover from..

Write about the thing that frightens you most..

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you..

I feel that I speak the musical language..

We are not afraid to look under the bed, or to wash the sheets; we know that life is messy. We know that somebody has to clean it up, and that only i….

During the day, our souls gather their ... impressions of us, how our lives feel. ... Our spirits collect these impressions, keep them together, like….

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write..

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself..

No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it wor….

Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus, and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy, and more than anything else in the world, yo….

There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to th….

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals..

When ''night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway..

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are..

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it..

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered..

I'm who I was waiting for. I didn't make it..