A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.

In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being.

The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.

Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.

It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world

Wealth is not a material gain, but a state of mind.

I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working with actors to find their way. Facilitating their performances is so satisfying for me.

Just watching people's ability to adapt, especially young people's, inspires me to accept more in life instead of wishing things were different all the time.

Somebody asked Somerset Maugham about his place in the pantheon of writers, and he said, "I'm in the very front row of the second rate." I'm sort of haunted by that.