I find that more and more I'm trying to entertain myself when I'm working, because I know the work's going to go to a horrible place.

You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.

Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

I've never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.

I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I've lived here for sixteen years.

We only have so much time.... Time will kill you – it really will.

Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing.

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.

I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

There's no point asking dogs about their dreams because sleeping dogs lie.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep

If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.

Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.

Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.

The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.

Form does not necessarily follow function

What we will not wait for is that particular nexus of terrorism, weapons of mass destruction that is extremism, and the technology to come together in a way that is harmful to the United States.

The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.