I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane.

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.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.

Regrets will eat a man up. My pa told me that. Said you should always try to make your peace when you can, 'cause no man knows what the Lord has in store for us tomorrow.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried

My talk show takes place in bed, in Italy.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

Bright-flaming, heat-full fire,The source of motion.

I still want to get some empathy from the audience, even though she's pathetic.

In every good man a God doth dwell.