A little truth seasons a lie like salt.

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

That which yields is not always weak.

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.

Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.

Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers

This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.

Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you

This moment is all there is and LOVE is like the glue that keeps you in it.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.

Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.'

The total amount of money that Wall Street handed out in bonuses last year was double the total income of ALL full-time minimum wage workers. That's obscene.

Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.

I'm welding the bimbo room shut.

The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital.

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.