This is unbearable how I talk.

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.

But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.

Don't cross me Scooby-Doo. I'm not an old man in a mask waiting to be thwarted by you meddling kids.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.

People come around, oh Donald Trump did this or that. I never saw these people before, I don't know who they are.

To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach.

Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time.

Tall poplars--human beings of this earth!

People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them they are us.

Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.