I got my first paycheck as a cast member in the Broadway production of 'HAIR' when I was 16 years old.

Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil rights. She sang with Pete Seeger among others. My father was an Actor.

Those who have suffered in the hands of others, know what it is to be free.

Brutes find out where their talents lie a bear will not attempt to fly.

One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.

As the generation of Holocaust survivors and liberators dwindles, the torch of remembrance, of bearing witness, and of education must continue forward.

Reactions [on my 1979 Massey lectures] were from Anglophones. I'm one. But I'm terrible at French. In fact, there was practically no reaction.

I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love I love I love I love but you do not.

People say that the Bible is a boring book...but they don't say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are zealous for Shakespeare.

But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.

Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.