I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.

Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.

Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.

I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.

Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.

I am not myself; I am the potential of myself.

I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.