It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.

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.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough.

A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.

The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.