Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.

What's life without a little risk?

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!

Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.

O hell! to choose love by another's eye.

Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present.

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine.

O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.

it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear

When we withhold the tithe we bring upon ourselves a curse.

A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.

I wasn't always this introverted.