I had just done something in TV, but my real love is theater. I had won this award and I was up at Yale, and I was happy because it came with money.

I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

To write drama is to leave a can of Coke by the side of the road. Then, sit on that can of Coke. Where's the can of Coke now?

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.

The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

Of all mankind's unpleasant habits, sheer and willful cruelty is the most base, the least forgivable and, when carried to its extreme, perhaps the most horrific.

And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.

Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

Dream that you died It takes you out of your mind The black walls of space Take me all the way

My father has passed away. He was African-American. My mother is white. So I was adopted by a couple that was of a similar dynamic as my biological parents.

And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright.