“WHAT! What do you mean you got kidnapped? What happened?” “Calm down, it’s okay. I killed him.”

“It’s NOT what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you that shapes your future”

“Whoa, there. Calm down." "Don't tell me what to do." "Okay, fine. Freak out.”

“You mean that it’s not only what he does that makes him dangerous, but also what he feels justified in doing?”

“He put his hand on mine. I fell into him, knowing what he would do, what he must do, and he did. He opened his arms and held me, and I let him embrace me. “It’s okay,” he said. “It’s okay.”

“I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I’m going to say, or where it’s going. I have some idea of how long it’s going to be -- but not what will happen or what the themes will be. That’s the intrigue of doing it -- it’s a process of discovery. You get to discover what you’re going to say and what it’s going to mean.”