Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

People who lack confidence in their judgement lack confidence in themselves

Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.

With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.

After enlightenment, the laundry.

The question you're not supposed to ask is the important one.

Doing the same thing day in, day out. It's just so boring. I like to jump from different things.

The nourishment is palatable.

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.

Being a producer and a star of the play was a lot more challenging and difficult than I ever anticipated, but so rewarding. I got to be involved with the writing, the casting.