Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen.

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.

The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends.

I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.

I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.

As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.

anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a need to write a play.

The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.

No, I do not weep at the world – I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

You don't need faith to walk on the riverbank, you need faith to walk on water.

The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.

The best cinema is about ethics.

Maybe it's just getting older, but I don't want to miss things.

Whenever there is a cross to be carried by any of Christ’s followers, He always bears the heavy end on His own shoulders.

The Earth would die If the sun stopped kissing her.

What is reality anyway! It's nothing but a collective hunch.

We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without a god. Without an airplane I am a lonely consumer of hamburgers.