I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.

But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.

There's not a lot of money in revenge.

Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

Well, The Dirty Dozen was like a vacation.

one day in the country is exactly like another.

You have to pay so much to see theater, even in Chicago. In the Greek theater, you didn't have to pay anything. You actually had to go, and you just sat there all day.

Valentine's Day is the hardest day of the year for a woman to get out, but everybody who is anybody and single is out that night.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

Sometimes discipline, which means "to teach," is confused with criticism.

True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time

The Devil deserves zero tolerance.