Real love isn't ever ambivalent.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support myself as a playwright at this point. I don’t think anybody does.

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

By Sharing you don't become Poor . . . you become Rich. For the more you Share, the more shall you Receive.

Do not live for emptiness, do not waste your evaporating life pursuing the vanities of life.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.

I grow fond of David, who lays a single stone before Goliath and a single book, the Psalms, in the mouth of the world.

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

I really love 'Dexter.' I'd like to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' or 'Breaking Bad'.

I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress

It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.

All change starts with a distant rumble at the grassroots level.

Reading is such a huge part of my life.