"I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel's kick and wind's song and the white sail's shaking, And a gray mist on the sea's face and a gray dawn breaking."

"Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have."

"Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man it has become the amusement and delight of the few."

"I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low."

"Beauty always promises, but never gives anything."

"Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?"

"The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker I know is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now.'"