You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.

Love is the only disease that makes you feel better.

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around.

I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny

Words are tools of imagery in motion.

When you're looking for someone, you're looking for some aspect of yourself, even if you don't know it ... What we're searching for is what we lack.

This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

War does not determine who is right — only who is left.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

It was as if the universe pointed us in the direction of each other, because that was the natural order of things.

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

It is a great thing to be a child of God, and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. If this is your privilege, you will know the fellowship of Christ's sufferings.

Well, I was named after Mick Jagger's daughter, Jade Jagger. How emasculating is it to be named after a girl! But I think I handled it well, it's not like I ended up wearing makeup and girl's pants.

She gets on you under your skin like a tattoo she'll always be there!

I walk a lot. It keeps me in shape and clears my head.

Greatness exists in all of us.

Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -