“You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.”

Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.

I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.

You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.

I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.

Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.

My work is always more emotional than I am.

And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.

Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.

I know that something inevitable will happen.

I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.

There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.

When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.

I’ve been living in Portland for five months and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I probably won’t really know for years because that’s how it works right?

We’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.

When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it’s a lie already at work.

My motivational music is any music that helps me escape. There are certain records that take you to euphoria, when you’re partying and havin’ a good time, dancin’ with a couple people.

Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt or angry. Holding on to pain, anger, guilt or shame is the glue that binds us to the situation we want to escape.

A man says to me, ‘Can you explain the seven trumpets of the Revelation?’ No, but I can blow one in your ear, and warn you to escape from the wrath to come.

Worries carry responsibilities that belong to God, not to you. Worry does not enable us to escape evil; it makes us unfit to cope with it when it comes.

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.