Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Positive words are well spring of life.

What living occasion can, Be just to the absent?

The script for 'In Good Company' was the first one I ever showed my dad.

If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so I might as well not start one.

The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.

Doing theater is like walking a tightrope without a net.

Certify border is secure; only then allow guest workers.

There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.

The only durable community is the one that embraces the whole planet, wild and tame . . .

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.