All we have is the story we tell.

If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?

What business does memory have with time?

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so?

It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound.

My parents were not theatrical at all.

The concern that I have is that, as wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few, economic inequality grows, and power also becomes more unequal.

Our life is woven wind.

Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible.

A lot of the players I'm with, thank God, we're all still vertical. We've lost so many great players through the years, and we're still standing, as Elton John says.

The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.

If we want to raise young adults who know how to solve problems, we must let them have problems to solve while they are still adolescents.