A gym for the soul is a place where personal investment is required and the return is real.

Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice, every other option.

You cannot hide; your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible.

You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.

The object is freedom.

To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.

What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I'd seen her as a child sees a good mother--pure, transparent, incapable of deception.

The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.

Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression.

[Invading Iraq] is not the best way to make a safer world in which the United States would be a responsible partner, but it also goes against the role of law in the United States.

What about us? Can i see you again? You can say no. You'd crush all my hopes and dreams, but it's an option.

Everything is passing ... enjoy its momentariness

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'