In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.

Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child - can be a way for us to survive tough times.

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater.

Im always interested in working with people who are good team players - that are selfless that way in their interests and dedication to the project.

I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

I don't want to be in an art bubble.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

I miss the fears of the past few weeks, rendered small by my fears now.

Even if I take him out for three hours every day, and go and chat to him for another hour, that leaves twenty hours for him all alone with nothing to do. Oh, why can't dogs read?

Increase your joy by doing the good you wish to have done to you.

Anyway, I want to remember that love can happen. Because there is life after not having a life. I never expected love to happen. What was I expecting from life, then?

Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit?

If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.

What! alive, and so bold, O earth?

I hate tricky facial hair. If your facial hair is too spotty in places, shave. Just forget about it.