I hate sitting around a table and talking about what a play might mean. I'm the person who's always like, 'Can we get up on our feet and just do it?

If you are opening a play, a play that's really about something, a play that's really about ideas, you have to find a way to sell that play.

It's thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness of it.

In the play we have the messy he-loves-her, she-loves-him, she-loves-him-too structure, and, to add even more confusion to the mix, the real love story is between the two ladies.

I was in the original cast of Wicked, and that got a bad review in The New York Times, and it’s the most successful thing that’s ever been put onstage.

I have 10 brothers and sisters.

I make decisions quickly.

If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.

My spirit has been around far longer than my soul--I've lived several lifetimes already. And one this novel has been written, I will have lived several more.

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and cannot, somehow, step naturally and unselfconsciously into some friendly group

Like everywhere in the world, people of the Middle East aspire to liberty and justice. They wish to have a better life and a decent education for their children.

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

We all flow from one fountain.

An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.