What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope the people will receive it. Same as a playwright. It's art.

Nobody steals from Creed Bratton and gets away with it. The last person to do this disappeared. His name? Creed Bratton.

I’ve been involved in a number of cults both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower but you make more money as a leader.

In case you were wondering, my spirit animal is a duck billed platypus.

No matter how you get here or where you end up, human beings have this miraculous gift to make that place home.

The only difference between me and a homeless man is this job. I will do whatever it takes to survive…like I did when I was a homeless man.

I'm a pretty normal guy. I do one weird thing. I like to go in the women's room for number two. I've been caught several times and I have paid dearly.

When I was a teenager, I was in an iron-lung.

I think if you don't have it [desire], you're not going to be pushed into anything. You've got to want to do something.

I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.

Ш'm not cybernaut, this stuff's so foreign to me.

If you want to speak to someone you cannot touch, see, or hear, the voice of love will transmit with or without a phone. It crosses all borders and travels through time and walls.

Fast and stupid is still stupid. It just gets you to stupid a lot quicker than humans could on their own. Which, I admit, is an accomplishment, " she added, "because we're pretty damn good at stupid.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.

There is not one grain of anything in the world that is sold in the free market. Not one. The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.

Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.

I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.

Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.

I love musical theatre and my dream is to do Once On This Island.