Quotes
My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.
If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.
I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
Oh, Mother, you go home too early!
I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
A play is fiction-and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
There's no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there'd be no challenge. Also, you'd feel inferior.
My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.