It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism.

Like so much of President Obama's decisions over the past six years, this is another photo-op with a compliant press that does not matter and will do little.

What I mean is that conservatives are in a constant state of hair-on-fire, yelling anger.

I don't think Trump's a conservative, I'm certainly not going to support him.

[Donald] Trump is not going to win... He's losing to Hillary [Clinton] in the latest polling.

I don't think that Donald Trump is a conservative. In fact, you go on Fox News, and half the people say he is and half say he isn't.

[Phyllis Schlaffley and Pat Buchanan and Jeff Sessions] do know conservatism, but I think they are wrong.

His music was an outlet of that romantic energy and sensitivity.

Writing as a creative art flourishes only when there are no rules. Rules stifle you from entering the silent and forbidden spaces where the core of the story is waiting to be revealed.

Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.

Complexity is the enemy of clarity

Being from Texas, I didn't know anything about gangsters and people like that, I had no fear of people.

The making of thoughts is the most common instance of human participation in the creative act.

In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.

maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.

All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.

Never interfere in a girl and boy fight.