I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.

There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.

Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.

I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy but I don't - life is a blessing.

Technology promises to let us do anything from anywhere with anyone. But it also drains us as we try to do everything everywhere. In a surprising twist, relentless connection leads to a new solitude.

In those days, you had to like one or the other. You couldn't like Sutherland AND Callas.

I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.

With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.

He could build a city. Has a certain capacity. There’s a niche in his chestwhere a heart would fit perfectlyand he thinks if he could just maneuver one into place –well then, game over.

A real friend helps us think our best thoughts do our noblest deeds be our finest selves.

I've always had an interest in sports across the board.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.

In these long-standing conflicts, I find that most cases it gets resolved in about twenty minutes after each side can tell me the needs of the other.

Less isn't more; just enough is more.

With the young generation, there are even more women than men making movies right now.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.