Death with honor is better than life... life with dishonor.

I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.

To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

Sometimes I hate you, sometimes I hate myself, but always I miss you

It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about

I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

Now I see -- we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us.

Yellow Face marks my summation of multiculturalism.

The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself

I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel we're parking cars or something.

Tomorrow gets better if you get today better.

Time is priceless gift.Time defined moments.Time lost can not be redefined.May you find the value of time as your greatest wealth.

When you talk about the stimulus package, you can ask 1,000 different people and they - you will have 1,000 different opinions of what is the ideal stimulus package.

Billy, in one of his nice new sashes, Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes; Now, although the room grows chilly, I haven't the heart to poke poor Billy.

Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.

ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

You don't want the truth. Truth is boring.

Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.

I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians.

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.