You speak of justice as if it were a coin in your pocket. Show it to me. If you cannot define it without crumbling, perhaps you were spending a word you had not yet earned.

The unexamined life is not worth living — or so the story goes of my defense. Examination is not self-obsession. It is refusing to sleepwalk through your own choices.

I know that I do not know — and that admission is a kind of strength. Pretended certainty is brittle. Honest uncertainty can learn.

A character wants something. Another force blocks it. Speech becomes action under pressure. If nobody wants anything urgently, you do not have a scene — you have polite weather.

Lovers in my plays ruin themselves by guessing wrongly — jealousy wearing certainty's mask. In affection, ask before you invent a story about the other person. The tragedy is often the assumption.

They say I trained with pebbles in my mouth and spoke against the roar of the sea. Whether every tale is literal matters less than the method: make practice harder than the stage, and the stage feels kinder.