There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.

Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.

I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy but I don't - life is a blessing.

Technology promises to let us do anything from anywhere with anyone. But it also drains us as we try to do everything everywhere. In a surprising twist, relentless connection leads to a new solitude.

I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.

In those days, you had to like one or the other. You couldn't like Sutherland AND Callas.

I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.

With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.

Living by faith, living by hope.

Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

You always learn from your mistakes.

Karma is not a receipt of a physical experience, because of what someone has done.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small, you don't know where it can lead.

For justice to have any meaning, it must also mean that no innocent person should ever be executed.

I am proud that we worked so hard to improve seniors' lives.

Don't ever use duct tape on your privates. That's what I always tell people.

Annika's my role model, and I wish in the future I could be like her.