We are all prisoners of our time and place.

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.

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

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.

One could get bored even with beauty when one was constantly surrounded by it.

Talking to them was like being placed into conversational purgatory, with no hope of being released without significant damage to one's self-esteem.

The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty.

I'm like the most expensive, exotic item on a gourmet menu. People can wonder about the sensuous delights of the dish, but they can't afford such an expensive luxury

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

If God grants me longer life, I will see to it that no peasant in my kingdom will lack the means to have a chicken in the pot every Sunday.

If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.

A little foolishness, enough 2 enjoy life, & a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do

Changing the legal standard creates a slippery slope...plural marriage. The court opened up a pandora's box by doing that.