A play's got to be a dramatic event, not a lyrical event. It's not music, it's not poetry, it's not dance, it's not narrative - it's dramaticit's about conflict. It's about forces coming together.

Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.

Once the spark of true love has been ignited, it cannot be quenched. It is there forever.

You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

God will help you if you try and you can if you think you can.

I would say that I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything in my life, including stand-up.

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.

I'm very good at meeting people, very outgoing.

Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial, we shall not need to spend much of this time on proofs.

The words, 'penalty,' 'restrict' and 'violate' appeared more times in President Clinton's health care reform bill than in his crime bill.

Digital ink technology holds substantial promise in terms of legibility, portability, and power consumption, but I am less confident about the communication aspect.