When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.

[Kids today] think "Grease" is just one long music video. So they watch it over and over again the way we, when we were kids, we listened to albums.

I wouldn't believe there was something 'wrong' with my son.

I love working in the theater.

I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

I love when people quote me. It makes me feel that my words have meaning. People give words power. When they speak out for things they feel, we all become alive.

The city is the size of a country, but has been operated like a candy store.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

My darling, you are indisposed! You must remain abed for the next eight months. Little Buford - " "I am NOT naming our child Buford.

The institutional scene in which American man has developed has lacked that accumulation from intervening stages which has been so dominant a feature of the European landscape.

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.

I personally don’t feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn’t if I tried anyway.

My brother and I were both teenage writers, and he was, I have to say, better than I was, but he went into science, and I went into writing.

I'd love to be in a 1910s film - the era between the corsets and losing the corsets.