If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

Give much, demand little.

Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

There is a future that makes itself and a future we make. The real future is composed of both.

In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health.

Could I do with a little life editing? Would that give me a little more freedom? Maybe a little more time?

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

You can't triple stamp a double stamp!

What do you want to kiss me for? I'm filthy.'- Liesel So am I.'- Rudy

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.