I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

The power of fiction is a great thing. But, after all, reality is just a little more important.

You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house and if you got a glass jaw, you should watch yo mouth: cause I'll break yo face.

That doesn't sound like my Margo", she said, and I thought of my Margo, and all of us looking at her reflection in different funhouse mirrors.

I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!

Please remember: things are not what they seem.

The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

Well, I sort of don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zeppelin.

But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

Remember that people will brag about what they've achieved, but they don't brag about the price they paid to get it.