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

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.

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.

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

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.

Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.

Music did that to me, just like God was supposed to, because music seemed both magic and holy.

If you want courage, kill fear and blindfold ignorance

I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.

Bravery is about overcoming fear, not about not having it.

I don’t know, ” he said. “I just feel like I have to do something.”“Do what?”“I don’t know. That’s what’s wrong. Or part of what’s wrong. I feel like I’m sleepwalking.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy.

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

I used to be a narrator for bad mimes.