When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken - you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years.

There's such an advantage to being involved in the day-to-day details of each other's lives. It's a marvelous fabric to exist in.

In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks.

All that most parents hope is that their children are happy, funny, well adjusted, and have a passion for something in their lives. What would negate everything is if the next generation that we're responsible for has a passionless existence. And that's cause for occasional sleepless nights.

Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.

I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates and motivations and I want the whole story. But I've always felt, unconsciously, that all human history is that connection from person to person to person, event to event to event, and from idea to idea.

This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.