Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.

Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.

There are people who...tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it! It's an old tactic of cruel people to kill kindness in the name of virtue.

Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?

I'd like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed.

Where the terror is, you must go.

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. Thats what writing a screenplay is.

[To Aquinas] the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals. ... Our better part [is] the mind ... and [its] intellectual contemplation.

In life, we choose whether or not we want to be a winner or a loser.

it is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.

Imagination is the air of mind.

Being crazy, for the rest of us, is a form of sanity.

The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.

An equation is a prophecy that always comes true.

Life is like a confused teacher...first she gives the test and then teaches the lesson

At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature.

God’s plan provides a way for family relationships to extend beyond the grave. We can return to the presence of God, eternally united with our families.