You can’t act Shakespeare until you can speak him.

Unless you connect to the text, the audience won't be able to connect with you.

You have to learn to work and search, not expect instantly to find.

I'm regularly asked, 'What's a good voice?' I often answer, 'One that I don't notice'. I would also add, one which makes me notice things about a spoken text

When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for years and not find out.

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

The Bible, profound wisdom .

The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

Fraud is the daughter of greed.

Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.

Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.

What is it about sameness that so draws me, and how could I begin to have that same kind of attraction to change?

Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life

Cats have no sense of humor, they have terribly inflated egos, and they are very touchy.

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.