The ocean is interacting with the surface. There is a possible biosphere that extends from way below the surface to just above the crust.

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

A play gets on Broadway by fluke. And you don't even start out with that ambition. When I do a play, the intention is just to put it up somewhere.

But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?

The world requires me to re-write its wretched dialogue!

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

A true friend is the one who knowseverything about you and still loves you. Eventually, people will forget the things you said or did, but the feelingsyou woke up in them they will never forget!

There is no such thing as perfect. But even if there was, I would pick you over perfection any day.

That's the best way to cross the Atlantic.

We all wanted babies - but did any of us want children?

Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

Progress is often equal to the difference between mind and mindset.

Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth.

I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.

Blest is that government where no art thrives.