Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.

I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.

Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.

There is something mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism, that integral part of its very being.

Things change, time changes. People change, life changes. Time changes things, life changes people.

Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same.

Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.

Sampling out corruption is a very tough job, but I say so in all seriousness that we would be failing in our duty if we do not tackle this problem seriously and with determination.

The greatest happiness is to sneeze when you want to.

Love is getting to be cynical, passion's just physical.

As an actor, you're just brought on to fill one role, so it's nice to see what the entire journey is like. As much as I'd be allowed to do it, I would do it. I love it.