Living in another culture, not just visiting it, has reshaped our view of the world.

You are what you read.

We've grown accustomed to living smaller and more simply.

We all seek for lost things within us.

I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.

Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.

Maybe it's a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play's a little more pertinent now.

People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.

Life and death are like inhalation and exhalation. They always exist together.

Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.

I dont get hung up about anything really.

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'