People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.

For all we know, at this very moment, somewhere far beyond all those distant stars, Benny Russell is dreaming of us.

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

Hold on to your dream. Don't let the people shake you from your dream.

I am in love with you, and I am not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

If people begin to use the full power of conscience in all the choices they make in their everyday life, from presidential elections to purchasing things in the grocery store, the world will change.

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.

I find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music. But if I had to go into specifics about it, I wouldn't be able to. It's merely something that I feel.

I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.

Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.

Guilt didn't put any butter on the bread of life.

Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.

There are a lot of murder ballads out there, but most of them are about killing the woman. I was like, "We've gotta turn this around!"