Art is about paying attention.

I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, "This is the most boring thing I've ever seen."

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.

Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.