Closing Bell is unlike any play I've written.

Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget.

I think all minority audiences watch movies with hope. They hope they will see what they want to see. That's why nobody really sees the same movie.

We have a desperate need for producers in the [commercial Broadway] theatre, and it is very hard for them to get money and find investors for new plays.

I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

God never got around to creating a substitute for experience.

Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.

I thought men like that shot themselves.

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.

Love. Be curious. Always try to do your best.

Now I'm a big fan [of X-files]. I had to see what all the fuss is about, and I love it.

Sleep,” he says. “I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “My bare hands, obviously.