He [Donald Trump] wasn't softening on anything.

You’ve already lost the battle if you’re afraid to fight.

This country has had 200 years of hegemony over the rest of the world, and it feels like our politicians, they just want to give that back.

When you have the opportunity to do something, you have to jump on it.

My father is a straight- talking guy. He's always been. He has a history of that in business as a personality for the last 35 years.

What Donald Trump is going to bring to the table. He's going to bring straight, honest conversation and bring up topics that, while they may be sensitive, they have to be said.

I know my father can make a difference.

I say that in jest a little bit, but Donald Trump is a blue collar guy with a balance sheet. That's the way he likes to have fun.

Happiness: the feeling of being alive.

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.

I study my competition for at least an hour a day. I get on the internet, look at what they doing, then I look at ways to defeat them.

The message is that all things are connected. We have animal aspects, anthropological aspects, plant-animal aspects.

Sweets, you couldn't ignore me if you tried.

I think that when you have kids, it's all about them.

He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.

I thought you were supposed to be pretending I don’t exist, not irritating me to death.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.