Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.

Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life questioning your situation at every turn.

With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material.