Do not fear mistakes - fear only the absence of creative, constructive, and corrective responses to those mistakes.

The scraps of information she’d gathered knocked against each other, like balls in a pinball machine in one of the arcades on the front. Secrets drew her in every time – the unsaid.

But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider... That thought was our power.

There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man.

Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.

During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.

I’m still very much a kid inside myself.

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

I accept reality and dare not question it.