I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

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.

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.

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

How can there be suffering when there is love?

Bitter truths have the need to expect backups if they are shared at all.

To tend unfailingly unflinchingly towards a goal is the secret of success.

In an old time there was a king as wise as a dictionary.

That is the good stuff that comes into our life and it's based on the good stuff that goes out of our life!

It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the entire story into a two-hour movie. But I was pleased with the reaction [for Kite Runner].

I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.

There are some religious traditions that view human beings as participants in creation. This is true of the Jewish tradition, from which I come.

I can get incredibly erotic about blotting paper.

Political leaders have to withstand headwinds.