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

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.

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 write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

Old times, sad times. I feel better about them now than I did then.

If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.

We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.

Nothing activates adrenaline production like pain. - Dr. Sienna Brooks

The first of all qualities of a general is courage.

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE

The goal of every married couple, indeed, every Christian home, should be to make Christ the Head, the Counselor and the Guide.

Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth, and his humanity.

Recovery is about purpose and meaning in life, not “sobriety” and meetings.

Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.