When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.