Follow your intuition, listening to your dreams, your inner voice to guide you.

Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.

Serendipity always rewards the prepared.

Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

You don’t know what’s going to happen in the end, and that’s what the best plays are.

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Everything is possible. You once told me not too long ago we should always have hope and I do.

Oh, dear--did I forget to mention that you can, indeed, have it all, but you need a lot of help!

I really feel there's no limitation on what this band can do in the studio or on the stage. That's an empowering feeling - that we can bring a song to life.

The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas.

The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

I've always played the guys that end up having the wisecracks.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Man, the most complicated of the animals, has a relatively short gestation period. Beyond that, he will be born, unlike most mammals, in a ridiculously helpless state.