At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, 'I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist.'

