We think of Starbucks not as a coffee company but a media company.
It doesn't feel like you're preaching, if you can say something in a joke.
I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.
The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to see Broadway shows, is something I've never liked.
I think as a writer you never have to flee from fame because you're not that visible in the first place, but, after the Broadway success of 'Beauty Queen,' people were coming up to me all the time, and I wasn't really prepared for that level of attention.
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.
It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.
Focus on opportunities, not problems.
We feel really blessed to have been asked to come here, and to have the opportunity for our family to be able to look into the eyes of these people, and in some way help.
Don't tense up no matter what, for you only close off creative power when you do.
At times, European football can be very slow but it speeds up in the final third.