I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child - can be a way for us to survive tough times.

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater.

Im always interested in working with people who are good team players - that are selfless that way in their interests and dedication to the project.

I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

I don't want to be in an art bubble.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.

Leah: I want those gubs Mommy.Kate: They're not 'gubs' they're 'gloves'Aaden and Leah try and say glovesLeah: Gloves!Kate: Good job!Aaden: Gubs!Kate: No

I remember being caught in this earthquake in Mexico City and having a sense of people coming before me, of being part of this lineage. I felt similarly when I went to India and South America.

On the day he had colonic irrigation: 'I feel I lost my virginity that day in so many ways.'

If you are hurt, whether in mind or body, don't nurse your bruises. Get up, and light-heartedly, courageously, good-temperedly, get ready for the next encounter.

Marine protected areas, and particularly no-take zones, are very effective in allowing regeneration of fish stocks.

He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn.

My first warning is to my government officers to not presume citizens as thieves.

Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God.

One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed.