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" I do believe that there are monsters out there - and that they are monsters. "

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" There are times when I wonder how I ever thought that I could dramatize the death of a national discussion as a family comedy. "

" Everyone pays lip service to this whole idea of doing more new plays, and nobody ever does it. "

" I often find it maddening to live in America, in a way that is both amusing and horrifying to me. America clings to versions of itself that are absolutely hypocritical. I can't shake my outrage at it, so I write about it. "

" We were told that hard work and talent and character would get you somewhere. At school, we learned it was important to share. On Arbor Day, we all planted trees. "

" I actuall have to defend realism in theatre because I think TV does it badly - so corrupted by layers of bureaucrats who want to leave examination or psychology. "

" I have admiration for people who can do it well - the guys who wrote 'Cheers' and 'Frasier.' They created sort of a blissful comedic universe. "

" I had such a good experience doing 'The Understudy' with the Roundabout, and people were really enthusiastic about the work. "

" In the theater, there's an emphasis on the singular voice. You know, it's your play. And in television, there's so much institutional involvement. So you end up having to negotiate with a lot of people, and that provides a kind of wear and tear on the spirit. "

" New York was the Promised Land growing up. Writers were gods! The great gods of American culture... I thought. "

" The ridiculous way that workplace politics are conducted completely gets in the way of excellence in America. "

" Spielberg read the 'Understudy' and decided that was the voice he wanted to write 'Smash.' He wanted a story that had humanity and humor and high-stakes dreams. "

" In America, the average playwright makes less than a receptionist in a non-profit theatre. We don't have decent health insurance - or any health insurance at all. "

" I think, with most writers, their neurosis is finishing things. I have a different neurosis. I'm terribly anxious when it's not finished. Then I become really difficult to live with. "

" I'm not ashamed of being American; I'm very proud. "

" When I go to Ohio to visit relatives on holidays, I am often astonished by the level of casual dismissal offered up by way of discussion. "

" Heath Ledger's recent death, like that of River Phoenix, was handled with great care by the press. Anna Nicole Smith's not so much. "

" We need theatre that is contemporary, lively and relevant, and the only way to do that is to take care of our playwrights and produce their plays. "

" Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity. "

" I think new plays are vastly more surprising and challenging and inspiring; I hear from audiences all the time that they are delighted when they see plays about the world we live in now, at this moment. "

" Our distorted media culture sees men as subjects and women as objects; in films, Woody Allen gets older and older and still dates 20-year-old babes; movies about women are called 'chick flicks,' and men make fun of them. "

" I find a lot of input from other people very stressful. "

" I have huge admiration for Jesus Christ and for his incredible compassion for all people. "

" One thing I won't do in television is a sitcom. I find that world to be so neurotic and bizarre. "

" I see how the Midwest distrusts the East Coast. The Midwest sees itself as morally superior. The Coast sees itself as intellectually superior. And the two are actually the same thing. "

" The myth that theater isn't for everybody is total nonsense. In the 18th and 19th centuries, everybody in America used to go to the theater all the time. The shows they went to see were big, crazy melodramas that had careening storylines and houses burning down and pretty girls in danger and comedy and death and destruction. "

" Because I'm an American woman, and I write straight plays, it's always been sort of assumed I would never be done on Broadway. But that was never the goal. "

" I would rather work in the theater than anywhere else, and it does seem to be a place where stories can and should be told purely. "

" I like to write. Prolific is part of who I am. "

" Some of my family goes back a long way in Denver. "

" I was born and raised in the Midwest, where people were taught that decency and integrity and community were all important values. We were democrats with a little 'd.' "