What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, 'What Can We Do?'

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

on the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

Write about the thing that frightens you most.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

Success is always something that you have to recover from.

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.

I'm who I was waiting for. I didn't make it.

It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Life does not wait: Whether we spend our lives meaningfully or not, the time will be used up moment by moment.

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.

I'll be your crying shoulder.

The experiences that you have in astral dimensions are not essentially all that different from the experiences you have here in the physical dimension. They are all transient.

You can't be said to make a choice when you only have one option.

I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.

Reach out a hand to your brother, for the unselfish look out for their fellow man.

I think good actors tend to be really funny.