I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.

I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.

Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.

Often the unfavorable events of our lives are a catalyst for long needed change, so what seemed like a poor decision in the beginning can result in much better quality of life in the long term.

Do you see a theme emerging? Women like flowers

I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens and palaces. And a mouse-yum. Hang on, Carter, I thought. not hunting mice.

I'm just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision.

The key to success is to develop a winning edge.

Who is omnipotent or wise enough to decide each new standard of good taste? Or sensitivity?

Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.

These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.

Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.

Be grateful even for hardship, setbacks, and bad people. Dealing with such obstacles is an essential part of training in the Art of Peace.