I love actors and I love to create an environment where they feel safe to connect and thrive and try things, to fail and succeed and flourish and fly.

Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you. You have work anytime. But love? Not always.

Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.

The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.

I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.

If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.

Money doesn't have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn't. What matters is what you make. Whether it's a cake for bingo night or a costume for a saint or a wall of water-whatever you pour into this life is what makes you rich.