Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?

A snowflake falls, so tenderly on your lips, I have learned to love this winter.

Are you sure you weren't adopted?""Mom would like to think so, but it was a natural birth, so her memory's real clear.

Hand me down the shark repellent Bat-Spray!

Festivals are unique. They can be the best of times or the worst. You're not playing to the converted. But those are the best shows - to see if you can make new friends and entertain them.

This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.

I would rather be a babysitter than a nursemaid

Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group. Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required.

My mother dressed me always very conservatively.

Listen twice as much as you talk, since you were born with two ears and one mouth.

The King is a fighting piece. Use it!