I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!

I’m a writer, and everything I write is both a confession and a struggle to understand things about myself and this world in which I live. This is what everyone’s work should be-whether you dance or paint or sing. It is a confession, a baring of your soul, your faults, those things you simply cannot or will not understand or accept. You stumble forward, confused, and you share. If you’re lucky, you learn something.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.