I'm not a competitive person, so I don't feel any pressure to win. I won't sink into a depression if we don't win.

My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my body into the world in some way.

Theater is such a small community that every brilliant piece of theater raises us all up.

He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history.

Business is win-win, everything else shades into crime.

The polyglot is a linguistic nomad.

As a feminine cocreator, having lived through the arc of evolution from 1929 to the present, I offer encouragement and vocational arousal to all!

People with passion are people who will destroy - for a man's passion is not true until he proves how much he's willing to sacrifice for it.

I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that

Pedantry is paraded knowledge.

I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.