Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?

Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.

Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.

There are people who...tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it! It's an old tactic of cruel people to kill kindness in the name of virtue.

I'd like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed.

Where the terror is, you must go.

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. Thats what writing a screenplay is.

Monogamy is like a 40-watt bulb. It works, but its not enough.

I have doubts! I have such doubts!

Trying to lead an interesting life, a fruitful life, is a big challenge.

Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.

Yes I never go to the gym otherwise because I think it's a waste of time and the most boring thing on earth.

When you are out in the land, OK, you have the land but you are alone with it. And sometimes it is too much.

If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one. But we are a country - USA - that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.

Always watch the hands. The hands will tell you everything you need to know.

We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment?

God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation; it cannot be assumed at the start.

You can either fit in or stand out. Not both.

Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.

We have to make ourselves as perfect as we can.