The tongue is like a sharp knife, killing without drawing blood. Words from a skilled person can cause greater harm than a warrior’s weapon.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.

The task of the playwright is to create a world that is both familiar and strange, a world that reflects our own but also challenges it.