It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.

The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine

Two days ago, I was trying to decide how to ask him to marry me, ” Zane whispered. “Tonight I’m trying to figure out if I can even love someone like him.

I am a 'little messiah' walking on earth.

For our hope in the future is cosmic, forging human history into eternity.

You don't fear change. You fear the unknown. If you knew the future would be great, you'd welcome the change to get there. Well, the future IS great. Proceed.

The oldest [John Kenneth] Galbraith rule is that when you hear that a new era has dawned, you should take cover.

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

You'd think I was shoving bamboo splinters under your nails. (Alice from Twilight)

Stereotypes, I want to say, have to be thought of not just as these invidious, bad things that we could get rid of, but as images that we cannot get rid of, that we have to live with.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.