Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic.

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.

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

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 loving heart, determination, faith, courage, trust, belief, truth, and a solid soul create the wings with which we fly.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.

A Compassionate state of mind brings inner peace, and therefore a healthier body.

I used to wash up the dishes as C3PO. And it's very hard to put cups away when this joint doesn't bend! Mum was very tolerant.

No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age.

When the cat's away, chances are he's been run over.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

I don't regret anything that I've turned down, and I don't regret anything that I've done, really.

Too many people want the appearance of winning rather than the practices and hard work that create a true champion.