We all exist in relation to the world, our partners, the human race.

I think you have to have your own expectations of yourself and your own sense of purpose and your own intrinsic pleasure in the task. If you don't, you will drive yourself off a cliff because your fortunes will rise and fall, and if you identify too closely with that, you really will go insane.

I think theatre is a democratic act and I think writing a play is not a democratic act. I think we should give writers more leeway and space to write the thing they want to write, and then we should produce the play, multiple times, and let them re-write it.

A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre.