Better in the Dark (of Pages, Stages, & Screens)

“I’m two different people with the two of you when you’re separate and now I’m in the middle and no one.”

“There’s only one happiness. Finding someone who loves you.”

“Something in a book cries out to be read.”

“Most of us flee home to escape how we seem to be becoming. Some of us never stop fleeing.”

“A story is a seed, but a seed is a story, too.”

I want to be a real person kind of person

“We all kinda look the same when we swim”

“Yes. You are her daughter. But I help her live.”

“First thing in a crisis. Ancient times, soon as some major shit went down - war, famine, death of the Pharaoh - first thing you do, find a goat. Put all your shit on its head - fear, shame, iniquity, whatever you got - and you let it loose, out into the wilderness. Then you hunt it down, cut out its heart and burn it as an offering to the gods. Have you done that yet? Did I miss it?”

"Our representations of human social life are designed for river-dwellers, fruit farmers, builders of vehicles and upturners of society, whom we invite into our theatres and beg not to forget their cheerful occupations while we hand the world over to their minds and hearts, for them to change as they think fit."