Theater and music are both collaborative media, and I think they're best when they combine different people's visions and aesthetics.

I'm a sucker for double meanings in titles.

The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.

There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.

I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions.

I take a lot of inspiration from the people I work with, and having many collaborators keeps me challenged and inspired.

Every day I wake up, there's a little part of my brain that's thinking I might die in a terrorist attack today.

It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and writing.

Until we begin to live for people and stop living for self, we have not started living, we just exist.

Christians have burned each other quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.

I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.

We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.

I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.

From when I was really young one of the first things I did was to perform and do shows. It was like a natural instinct.

There is evidence that Democrates were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established. If people are around me and whatever I'm doing is efficient, then I'm extremely peaceful.

I saw brilliant ideas coming out of the [Chipko] movement that needed better articulation, that needed elaboration and systematic analysis. I just followed that and it's been very exciting.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.