Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important.

A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us.

Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?

There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

We all exist in relation to the world, our partners, the human race.

The director was only invented in the nineteenth century. So directors have only been around for 200 year,s and playwrights have been around since Sophocles and Euripides.

What I really value about being a writer is that I can go to rehearsal when I want to, and then, when I need to be at home writing or with my kids, I go home.

I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.

I made publicity contracts with Nike, several broadcasting companies and airline companies within Australia.

Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it.

There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

People think of education as something that they can finish.

The criminal does not expect his prey to fight back. May he never choose you, but, if he does, surprise him.

Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.

We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.

Don’t tell me you’re going to eat a mashed-potato sandwich