I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off.

Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.

I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.

I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work.

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.

It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.

University's like this little world, a bubble of time separate from everything before and everything after.

Culture is collective mindsets, attitudes, and behaviors.

Feminism is not only for women It's something everyone can participate in, and evolve together, as the first step in the right direction. I see feminism as a tool to achieve that balance and peace.

To be extremely self-centred, only interested in your own satisfaction, always brings negative consequences in the long run.

There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books.

From the paths of blood (and such is the history of nations) I cannot refuse to turn aside to gather some flowers of science or virtue.

My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatevers coming next.

Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.

American politicians have openly said that the sanctions are aimed at bringing about regime change in Russia. That's aggressive enough.