I think a person has to believe in something, or search out some kind of faith; otherwise life is empty, nothing. How can you live not knowing why th…

- Sarah Ruhl

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

- Sarah Ruhl

It was important to me that people know that you can make plays and raise children at the same time - for other mothers, for other parents, for other…

- Sarah Ruhl

I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane.

- Sarah Ruhl

Plays are architecture, and you can make them stand in many ways that are hard to describe. And, I think, in our limited ability to describe them, we…

- Sarah Ruhl

There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're …

- Sarah Ruhl

A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They s…

- Sarah Ruhl

Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length…

- Sarah Ruhl

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good…

- Sarah Ruhl