“But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.”

I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love

Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.

I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.

You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.

And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.

I’m not too interested in books about India.

And culture is – each of us – is like one pearl added to another to make a chain. We each contribute to the other. And that’s all right. But once you’re on your own, do that which comes from within. And I feel this very strongly.

You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex

Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

I hang on to the statement of scientists that there is no time. Therefore, join me in telling everyone you are thirty-two. This allows me to go after young men and plan grabbing husbands from my girlfriends.

My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.

The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.

You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.

Do be true to yourself, whether it’s bad doesn’t matter. The important thing – you have to copy while you’re studying.

For the world order to be one of peace and justice, for the global village to be a theater of right livelihood.

When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.

Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single “I” or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.

I began as a dramatist in the theater, so I’m always thinking about how a story moves, what it looks like, how to engage the senses.

The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.

I’ve written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it’s important for people to know that theatre is vital.

Any show that’s bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that’s the only way that theater will continue to grow.