I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible..

I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I live with them. Then at some point, i….

As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole..

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 ma….

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

Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain remove….

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 behin….

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 a….

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain..

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 y….

The arts reflect profoundly the most democratic credo, the belief in an individual vision or voice . . . The arts' belief in potential gives each of ….

I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women of my own genera….

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone..

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 ….

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

Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen..

The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for in….

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

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without your even asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective peo….

A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that….

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable..