Sometimes I hate you, sometimes I hate myself, but always I miss you

I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.

To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about

I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

Now I see -- we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us.

Yellow Face marks my summation of multiculturalism.

The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself

I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel we're parking cars or something.

Time flies when you’re being stupid.

I write letters to you that you’ll never see.

The choice is very obvious if you have to choose between the devil and the angel! If the choice is not obvious in your mind, then you have some badnesses inside you!

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

I wish with all my heart that you may be the most lovable prince in the world, and I bestow my gift on you as much as I am able.

Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.

The more you know, the less you have to carry. The less you know, the more you have to carry.

Jesus was a pothead- long hair, beard, sandals, carpenter- do the math it all adds up. Living with twelve guys with no visible means of support.

Obviously some states are allowed to have weapons of mass destruction while others are not.

I like to live my life so that my loved ones give me the things I need as gifts and I give them the things they need. Frankly a society built around consumerism is hell