For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior

Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?

Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

I have been vain since birth.

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!

I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.

I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.

Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?

I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.

Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.

The person who killed my son, I have no animosity for that person at all.

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

Your goal over time is to use less red ink every day.

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.

I'm frank, brutally frank. And even when I'm not frank, I look frank.