If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off.

Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.

I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.

I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work.

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.

It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.

I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth

You have no idea how much I appreciate your friendship, ” Jules said. Sam held out several bills. “Yeah, actually I do, ” he said. “It’s probably as much as I appreciate yours.

Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.

Some sorts of truth are truer than others.

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

I don't take sides for or against Hezbollah or for or against Israel.

Somedays you eat the bear, somedays the bear eats you

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.