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.
Sarah RuhlTheatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.
Sarah RuhlThere'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.
Sarah Ruhl