I'm very into the first production of the show.

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.

It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.

My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.

In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.

That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.

I find it fascinating to think about what the world is going to be like when people won't talk anymore.

There is no middle ground in Hollywood you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.

I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.

People who have a conservative viewpoint both religiously and politically and they fear that the world is going to be thrown into perpetual communism.

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.

I can hear what I want [people] to play. If you don't hear what you want someone to play, then you can't tell 'em.

I always see myself as, like, equal to everyone.

I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more.

Tell me something, Adron. Sometime you’ve never shared with anyone else. Not even Thia. (Livia) I’m the one who glued Zarina to the toilet seat when she was seven. (Adron)