Freedom of expression is actually a way for people to know themselves better, and to understand themselves better. Because without it, you become a stranger to yourself.

We should be in the business of living, not making a living.

Theatre has so many competitors, it's no longer enough to see and hear a play. You want to be able to touch and smell it, too.

The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely inherent to artistic expression.

Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.

What ends up happening is people form images and the image they form is, in some ways, what they want it to be. The idea of trying to correct the image is something I'm not interested in doing.

President Bush says he has just one question for the American voters, 'Is the rich person you're working for better off now than they were four years ago?'

But, on balance, we seized the marketplace. We've got a great infrastructure. And yes it's struggling in some areas because of some external factors and some internal factors.

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

Trust your first instinct.

As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet.

People who are government servants, public servants, should not be paid more than the taxpayers who are paying for it.

Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power.

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.