Having - and keeping to - a regular exercise routine is crucial. And forget about those extreme diets - they aren't healthy.
To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.
This is the ultimate cruelty, isn't it? That I can talk and talk and to anyone listening, it's only air--too rich a diet to be swallowed by a mundane world.
We are all prisoners of our time and place.
I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.
. . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre, but also its institutional structures. This has been an important goal of mine, as there have always been a variety of issues - artistic freedom, author's rights, access by minority groups - which have concerned me and even influenced my decision to become a playwright in the first place.
Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?. . . Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.
And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.
I prefer Christmas, which is everybody's holiday. It's just my nature. I don't like to be zeroed in on en masse.
Like the seasons of the year, life changes frequently and drastically. You enjoy it or endure it as it comes and goes, as it ebbs and flows.
All blessings are mixed blessings.