And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.
I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.
I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.
I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.
Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.
Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.
All I like to do is work every day and have an idea what I want to do.
I used to work as a tour guide for Americans. I'm convinced that even after four weeks on the road they had no idea where they had been. They were in a bubble.
What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrow's ideas.
You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are.
In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.
I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.
The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were ma...
Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.
I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy.
They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war.
At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.
