The challenge, it turns out, isn’t in perfecting your ability to know when to start and when to stand by. The challenge is getting into the habit of

Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.

believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

That's your opportunity--to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth.   Not going all the way, and not starting.”   Siddhrtha Gautama

This is an addictive pastime. You take no real risk, touch the world, and it responds. Repeat.

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance…and if you have anxiety about initiating a project, then of course you will associate risk with failure.

The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset.

Leadership can mean defiance.

It's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit it square.

You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.

There are people who look at the rules and find ways to structure around them. The more complex the rules, the more opportunities.

From time immemorial History has decreed that territory on this Planet Earth belongs to those powerful enough to take it and determined enough to keep it.

Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

I absolutely would not have liked playing in Spain or somewhere like that, so I was just gonna do it a year. Then I was gonna be done.

Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.

In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.

Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.