I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I've lived here for sixteen years.

You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.

Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

I've never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.

We only have so much time.... Time will kill you – it really will.

Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing.

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.

I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

Every morning the sun rises with a golden glow to reveal the ineffable magnificence of life.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.

Happiness is having a large loving caring close-knit family ... in another city.

If you count your chickens before theyve hatched, they wont lay an egg.

I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.

Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.

I believe that philosophy is part of literature, and not the reverse.

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

I finally discovered that my life is more important than show business.

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.