In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can.

I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

You are a more powerful person than you might have ever imagined.” Maxwell D. Kalist.

He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.

You promised him vengeance as well.' 'I promised him justice.' 'Call it what you will. It still comes down to blood." - Tywin & Tyrion

Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism. Jewish terrorists hanged two British sergeants and booby-trapped their corpses.

I get has been great. It has opened so many doors for me.

The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does.

I don't take vacations.

Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.

Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.

Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.