I like to flip through play scripts, not just my own; there is something exciting about seeing printed language on a page that triggers responses in me.

Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them.

Telling takes away the need to write. It relieves the pressure. And once that tension dissipates, so does the need to relieve it. First write it, then we’ll talk about it.

I ate and read my book, this particular kind of fantasy novel that I secretly loved. It was my favorite thing to do– eat and read. The world just shut up for a while.

… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.

I just believe that someday I'll meet a person who'd describe me from the side as thoroughly and eloquently as I can do it.

Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the damsel in distress to pursue a better damsel out of my bedtime routine.

Thankfully we had a big drive there in the fourth quarter after the fumble to put us up 11, and then the big drive to finish the game.

When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again.

In reality, our mind is the creator of all the things we experience.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

I'm not interested in making what's easy. I'm interested in making what's beautiful.

It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world population) than before and yet also a much graver injustice.