Theater is such a small community that every brilliant piece of theater raises us all up.

My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my body into the world in some way.

I'm not a competitive person, so I don't feel any pressure to win. I won't sink into a depression if we don't win.

He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history.

Sacred souls experience sleepless nights. It is enormous strength for specific sacred work.

Now I am past all comforts here but prayer.

I have a really good family. I'm lucky to have people who support me and love me in my life.

Write til your fingers bleed.

If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

The biggest review of taxation ever undertaken in this country, is now dead in the water.

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.

Tom Ford just started at Gucci and was getting great notoriety - like Madonna wearing that head-to-toe velvet suit at the MTV awards. I remember it like it was yesterday.

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.