There's an underlying puritanicalness in America that is not that different to the prudishness of Britain - it just manifests itself in different ways.

I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.

Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.

The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.

What neo-capitalism does so brilliantly is that it's always subdividing and dividing, so that people are never able to be joined in their numbers and strength in a unified way. That is exactly what we have to overcome.

If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world.

If you just look at the fact that a woman was central in twittering the Cairo revolution, and women were central to the Tunisian uprising. Women are at the center of everything right now and moving everything forward. And I do think in the next year or two, we are going to see such a woman spring, such a rising.