There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.

All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.

The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.

The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.

I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been for the same reason: I said yes when I meant no.

You'd be surprised how many kings are only a queen with a moustache.

There's nothing the matter with Hollywood that a good earthquake couldn't cure.

One of the grave dangers inherent in the various stages of any theatrical career-whether it be budding, quiescent or diminishing-is the advice of friends.

Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx.

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

It is of no consequence what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.

It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Abolishing slavery leads to slaves without masters

We are in the target hairs in this election [2016]. We are all asking whether we are going to have a world at all or not going forward.

Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.

You have to CHANGE the way you THINK in order to CHANGE the way you FEEL

If a person hides the truth or says something fake on variety shows or interviews, it will still be found out no matter how careful they are.

Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally.

There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character.