I found that life intruding on writing was, in fact, life. And that, tempting as it may be for a writer who is a parent, one must not think of life a….

No one likes kids. We say we do, and we take pictures of pregnant women for People Magazine, but really they're commodities - we hate them around, we….

In America I think it's much more full of disruption culturally; it's much more mysterious how we inherit culture here. We grab it where we can find ….

I do think there's a relationship between a book and a reader that's more intimate, in many ways, than the relationship between an audience member an….

Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic..

The director was only invented in the nineteenth century. So directors have only been around for 200 year,s and playwrights have been around since So….

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on..

Attachment parenting is this theory that if you wear your baby around and you sleep with your baby and you breast-feed for a long time, the baby will….

We all exist in relation to the world, our partners, the human race..

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood..

What I really value about being a writer is that I can go to rehearsal when I want to, and then, when I need to be at home writing or with my kids, I….

There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're ….

I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane..

A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre..

I think a person has to believe in something, or search out some kind of faith; otherwise life is empty, nothing. How can you live not knowing why th….

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good….

I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding..

This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. Bu….

Plays are architecture, and you can make them stand in many ways that are hard to describe. And, I think, in our limited ability to describe them, we….

Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length….

A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They s….