I'm interested in the feeling of getting to zero after a play, like you're never going to do it again. That's a really scary feeling.

We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.

I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

I like movies about women behaving badly, because women behave badly just like men, and we're not always adorable and cute about it.

You keep learning how to let go and to live the life that you actually have, as opposed to the life you thought you were going to have.

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

I like things that look like mistakes.

Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and what they're up to.

I’m not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don’t need a romance to complete a story about a woman

I feel like most people aren't either/or, they're both/and. You're both magnanimous and petty. You're both kind and cruel. You're never just one thing.

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.

Then again, he supposed the healing process, in contrast to trauma, was gentle and slow... The soft closing of a door, rather than a slam.- John

You are not saved by the plan of salvation. You are saved by the man of salvation.

A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.

All money is essentially merchandize.

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.

So false is faction, and so smooth a liar, As that it never had a side entire.