Whoever you are, or want to be, you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.

We come from ruins, but we're not ruined.

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have.

One of the signs (you) displayed (said): QUESTION AUTHORITY. Comments or slogans of this nature cannot and will not be condoned.

Michael Arndt, that guy - you're just supposed to say nice things about other writers, but I worship Michael Arndt.

If you develop rules, never have more than ten.

Since there were others, a long time ago, who were kind enough to give me a hard time and allow me to study with them, I try and express the same Buddhist courtesy.

I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.

Who goes to bed, and doth not pray, Maketh two nights to every day!

I'm going to be pitching Andy Cohen on a new show for Bravo. We can call it 'Project Pantsuit.'

You only want everything you don't have.