By appreciating the darkness when you design the light, you create much more interesting environments that truly enhance our lives.

There is actually a physical connection between light and our health and wellbeing.

I feel like I'm put in a position where I have to engage with what people bring to my work, which is an expectation for me to talk about race because it's not normal for a black writer to be writing in the theatre.

I do consider myself a Norwegian writer, or a Scandinavian writer, as my family tree reaches into both Denmark and Sweden. I don't think about it, of course, when I am writing.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.