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.

I do think there's a relationship between a book and a reader that's more intimate, in many ways, than the relationship between an audience member and a play - just by the nature of it being an object that you can have in bed with you and that you can keep and page through.

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

Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic.

Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us.

There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.

I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.