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.

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.

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.

A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre.

He had the blue kite in his hands

We must face honestly the toll that anger and bitterness take on our lives. They are our enemies! The Bible says, “An angry person stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered one commits many sins.

The purpose of lifeis to give our life purpose.

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

Wayne's done way more for my career than Jay-Z. Wayne is the reason I'm here.

Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

Brayden met my eyes. His were hazel, almost like Eddie’s but with a little green. Not as much green as Adrian’s, of course. No one’s eyes were that amazingly green.

Throwing money at problems never solved anything!

If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.