What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.

You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.

Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

I've never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.

I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I've lived here for sixteen years.

We only have so much time.... Time will kill you – it really will.

Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing.

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.

I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink!

My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before.A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable loss.

How can you reform when you are always busy conforming?

We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection.

Liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.

My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.

We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.

My only master, my only mistress are the facts and the evidence. So if I reach a conclusion, it's only because the evidence took me there.