It's an old sailor's idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other held by the loved ones at home.
We all exist in relation to the world, our partners, the human race.
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.
This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.
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.
It was important to me that people know that you can make plays and raise children at the same time - for other mothers, for other parents, for other women considering having children and who want to be working and thinking and contemplating and making things while they're raising children.
By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.
The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
After initial needs are metenough food, shelter, comfortthere is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe.
How great the lie right to the top: We don't torture people in America and people who say we do simply know nothing about our country.