I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.

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.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

It's the gravity of love that makes you fall, and it's the same force that builds you up.

And since when had I become the guy that things happened to ten years ago?

Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.

I was the life and she was the soul of every party.

Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

As a dream comes true, it falls flat.

My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.

Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.