Death is not the end. Death can never be the end. Death is the road.

Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is.

I don't blame people who suspect my performance. My own mind suspects it. How can I blame them?

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being.

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

I'd gotten the message in my home, starting with my grandfather, that real work, the kind that makes you sweat and gets your hands dirty, is a respectable, necessary thing. But I wanted to write - and writing didn't qualify. Whenever I told my parents I dreamed of becoming a writer, they said, 'Great, but what are you going to do for work?'

The deaf community has shaped me as an artist and a person, and I am very grateful that I have been able to share and create so much art with a group of people I would have never imagined sharing and creating with. It's a true testament to the power of theater. There are no walls.

I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen their work on the screen and I've been like, Wow, that was a really great performance. Because there are a lot of elements with film. It's not like stage. It's not a kind of performance art anymore; it's a highly tuned kind of collaboration - a symphony.