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

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.

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

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.

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.

You are the only one of your kind

A book may be regarded as irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading

I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.

Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can't come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That's part of the game.

Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly.

Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well to pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?

Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.

I'd rather bare skin than wear skin.

Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of insane tyrants who hear voices.

Christ's resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.