Unlike films, which can be easily disseminated worldwide via DVDs and the Internet, plays struggle to find an international audience.

Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.

Serendipity always rewards the prepared.

Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

You don’t know what’s going to happen in the end, and that’s what the best plays are.

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race.

Empathy is the highest qualification one can obtain in order to genuinely love.

To forbid mistakes is to forbid learning.

There are tomorrows on their way worth the struggles of today. Never give up.

And now he smiled at me. All teeth. The way only people who hadn’t learned self-consciousnessknew how to smile.

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

Sell to their needs-not from yours.

What would you think of a person who always wanted things from you but never offered a word of thanks in return? We can be that way with God, can't we? Let's remember to thank Him.

A song is the most intangible thing in the world.

The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.