A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is just fine as long as its contained.

You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates

A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.

Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.

I don't love you, you know. I'm merely crazy about you.

It is peculiar to “ressentiment criticism” that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to cure the evil. The evil is merely the pretext for the criticism.

If I cut my hair, others did. If I shortened my dresses, so did everyone else.

There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us.

If Jay spent as much time studying as he does trying to be a comedian, he'd be a big star.

I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.

Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.

I'm not one of those people the tabloids chase around.