Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

How could I have ever thought she was what was wrong in my life? She was the only thing that made any sense, and when she was broken and hurting, so was I.

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.

I had an all right high school, even though I hated school. I wasn't massively popular, but I was okay. But I wouldn't want to do it again.

I don't want to go too far away from what I'm doing now because that would alienate my audience.

It is possible to modify your awareness to perceive what plants perceive, birds, beings in the astral, the causal.

Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.

The world makes up my pictures, not me.

Eternal brightness is as scary as the eternal darkness.