Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

Life is a disease.

We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.

I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.

I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word accessible.

It is never okay to use the toilet with the door open... I never want to know what comes out of there because sometimes I eat at that restaurant.

...in life it is often the tiny details that end up being the most important.

A man with a long history of racial discrimination should never run our government.

If you want something Scottish, go get yourself a kilt.

The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.