All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.

I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.

Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

You cannot lose if you have learned one new lesson.You cannot lose if you have helped one new person.You cannot lose if you have overcome one new obstacle.

If you're not creating, you're disintegrating.

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

Always stay true to yourself. Some people will like it, some people won't. Life goes on.

When you look at a couch you don't really see the couch. You see the couch as perceived by a state of mind.

There’s something wonderful about entertaining people on vacation. Everyone is there to have a good time.

I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.

It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

You are made Rather to wonder at the things you hear Than to work any.