Write about the thing that frightens you most.

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.

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.

Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.

Life is to be enjoyed, not endured

It's impossible to know everything about everything but the real pleasure lies in knowing something about everything

Can you revive wilted tulips?

I hope to return. I’ll do so if I’m not killed. Probably will anyway.

Stay hungry, stay healthy, be a gentleman, believe strongly in yourself and go beyond limitations.

One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself. This is where creativity begins.

'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

[Carter just asked when I became a ram whisperer. Do shut up, Carter]

Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat

A football team is like a society, straight up. There are rapists, but there are creatures and there are film guys.