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.

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?

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.

A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre.

Knowledge is what makes the human being rich and not otherwise. Whoever thinks that money determines rich or poor is so wrong or in another way to put it he/she is so shallow

It's rather good to pretend to be normal with someone.

Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist.

Moving towards better rather than moving away from bad is an attitude of embracing life rather than rejecting it.

The two things you can't fake are good food and good music

All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

Fate determines who comes into our lives Our attitude and actions determine who stays in our lives.

If your in business your in show business. The moment you get to work your on stage. Give your performance of your life.

I remember World Cups in 1982 and 1986 when we weren't there and we'd support Belgium or Denmark, .. They had some players who played in Holland and they were a bit like the Dutch.