God really does take our work seriously: It is wrong, it is a sin, to accept or remain in a position that you know is a mismatch for you. Perhaps that's a form of sin you've never considered - the sin of staying in the wrong job. But God did not place you on the earth to waste away your years in labor that does not employ his design or purpose for your life, no matter how much you may be getting paid for it.

Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.