In life most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. Bad improvisers block action often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.

If it weren't for fear, I wouldn't have to teach you a damn thing

As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I'd lived in as a child, but I thought the dulling of perception was an inevitable consequence of age - just as a lens of the eye is bound gradually to dim. I didn't understand that clarity is in the mind.

When you want to have entertainment, it must be a waste of time. I don't like that. I don't like improvisation being pointless.

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.

If people had no fear, you'd hardly need to have to teach them. It's the fear that screws everything up.

Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.