It's a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture.

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.

Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

When people are really drunk they have a propensity to harm themselves and others - they fall off buildings, they drive into other cars.

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement.

Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.

I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.

I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.

Percy’d heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legs and arms used to be. That’s how his mind felt—like his missing memories were aching.

The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.

Some of the best opportunities in the world are the most obvious ones.