The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you how to write and to direct. The classroom will teach you how to obey, and obedience in the theatre will get you nowhere. It’s a soothing falsity.

The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.

I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?