I can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That can be tempting. That can be a relief. But it usually leads to disaster.

I was fortunate to love men, so I could put them on stage and make roles for them, and move through their bodies in a way that they enjoy doing...

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.

I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.

The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.