Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.

There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.

I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy but I don't - life is a blessing.

Technology promises to let us do anything from anywhere with anyone. But it also drains us as we try to do everything everywhere. In a surprising twist, relentless connection leads to a new solitude.

I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.

In those days, you had to like one or the other. You couldn't like Sutherland AND Callas.

I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.

With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.

A lack of knowledge always leads to defeat and destruction

I don't the life of a thug. I live the life of a sinner.

This is the idea that has made me...an anonymous figure in America...If you have children here tonight...they are NOT special.

You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.

The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the illusion.

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

Indigenous languages are Canada's national treasures. They are our identity. We simply have to put greater effort into rejuvenating and revitalizing them. It is key to moving forward.

The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.

Everyone's really lazy in L.A.

God does not live in a perpetual state of disappointment over who we are.