Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us.

A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?

There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

We all exist in relation to the world, our partners, the human race.

The director was only invented in the nineteenth century. So directors have only been around for 200 year,s and playwrights have been around since Sophocles and Euripides.

What I really value about being a writer is that I can go to rehearsal when I want to, and then, when I need to be at home writing or with my kids, I go home.

I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.

A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre.

I kind of have to go to the bathroom, " Aria said woozily.Ezra smiled. "Can I come?

We live in a nation of pigs and murderers.

Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.

I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.

and i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free.

The day I notice a cyclist obey a stop sign is the day I'll stop enjoying watching them bounce off my hood.

Some of my best friends are FBI agents.

I think what we're seeing on a lot of parts of the right is people bending their positions and their principles on account of the fact that Donald Trump won.

...be a light unto the darkness, and curse it not

The reward of eternal life requires effort.