Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

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.

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.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

I look at Jessica Alba and think she's got a great body. I think that's what women are supposed to look like.

I'm amazed, that how salam (peace) is always the first word to start a meeting. but in prayer it is the end word. Maybe it means the end of prayer is the start of a meeting.

We will not be recasting J.J. Murphy. He was a lovely man, and the best Denys Mallister we could have hoped for. And now his watch is ended.

As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that will be the beginning of civilization.

Even when it feels as if we are being crushed by earthly troubles, we can remain joyful. If we keep our focus on God, our spirit cannot be trampled.

You can't imagine hip-hop without the Black Panthers. Today, hopefully, the movement can be an inspiration to people. These were people who made mistakes but they were trying to change things.

Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.