Basically I was a theatre fanatic. I had a job with Home Box Office as a theatre consultant for a long time.

What was good was that I had friends who were actors and in theatre who were really good, because I think my strengths were visual, like pictorial.

I have a tremendous respect for writers who scribble away their torments, and their passions into plays.

I like to get produced. I'm not saying I write to be commercial, I mean "Hazelwood High" they light a girl on fire, so it wasn't the most.

I like to figure out what the production opportunities are for the things I'm interested in before I put pen to paper.

But flaming youth in all it's madnessKeeps nothing of its heart concealed:It's loves and hates, its joys and sadness, Are babbled out and soon revealed.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.

I'm not going to sacrifice my mental health to have the perfect body.

Live joyfully, without desire.

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own.

Believers should be more concerned for God's opinion of them than for what human opponents might do to their bodies.

There’s a very deep connection among human beings. All we have to do is open our minds to it.