“I have friends who have children with various disabilities, and I was ...” — John Ross Bowie Quote

“I have friends who have children with various disabilities, and I was able to talk to them about just sort of the struggle and the extra effort that has to be put into very commonplace things.”

“The bottom line is we go to theatre to vicariously spend time with really intense characters.”

“'Speechless' is first and foremost a show about a family that doesn't have a ton of money, but they move into a really crappy house in a really nice neighborhood so their kids can go to a nice school.”

“In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.”

“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.”

“Above all, a well-imagined story is organized around extraordinary human behaviors and unexpected and startling events, which help illuminate the commonplace and the ordinary.”