I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.

What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.

And so the beauty was in being alone

And yet you thought he was the one? Imagine a lifetime without laughter.

Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally.

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour wherewith shall it be salted?

To be of no Church is dangerous.

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.

Without the body, the wisdom of the larger self cannot be known.