The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.
Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
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 the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.
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. That's what our job is as writers is to present that and create it. Our job as writers isn't to make as much money as we can. Our job is to create a record of this time. That's why if you leave out women and the stories of women, we failed at our mission. All of us. Men and women.
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 if it is cleaned up can we hope to start over, and get better.
on the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.
I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
When you’re doing work you care about, you are able to work harder and better.
Joining a radical movement when one is young is very much like falling in love when one is young. The girl may turn out to be rotten, but the the experience of love is so valuable it can never be entirely undone by the ultimate disenchantment.