I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.

I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.

People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators "the haute couture of language."