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.

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

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

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.

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.

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.

If you put gratitude at the center of your life, one day you will find it has completely taken over.

The greatest souls have survived deep distress and mental-ill health.

You need to have faith and trust, Moira.""And a little bit of pixie dust?

Never get lost in the crowd. Climb a mountain for a better view.

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.

Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]

Dear friends of Haiti, we are indeed on the right track. Slowly but surely we are rising from the ashes.

The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city.

Flowers are born, and they wither...

Youth passes like a dream.