The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.

You show you care, you die.You show you fear, you die.You show nothing, maybe you live.

Simply to endure is to triumph.

Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.

Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.

A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.

Sometimes when we’re in situations where we feel we’re not in control, we do things, especially things that take a lot of energy, as a way of making ourselves feel we have some power.

This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me

Inside my head I carry: my baby goat, my baby brother, my ama's face, our family's future. My bundle is light. My burden is heavy.

Merin smiled. "I fought in battle and your mother bore two children. Of the two of us, I think she was the courageous one.

Work a lifetime to pay off a house. you finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.

I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.

I don't remember any blue poodles.

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

For women, I take inspiration from strong women with good aesthetics and integrity, and a little tomboy influence.

Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater.

There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did, what was provocative was her natural sensuality.

Pressure is what you make of it. It makes me play harder.

My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.