In those days, you had to like one or the other. You couldn't like Sutherland AND Callas.

There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.

Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.

I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy but I don't - life is a blessing.

Technology promises to let us do anything from anywhere with anyone. But it also drains us as we try to do everything everywhere. In a surprising twist, relentless connection leads to a new solitude.

I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.

I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.

With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.

Ignorance is the worst liberation. To know even a few is better than knowing nothing at all.

Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

I don't know why I feel so crazy...I feel like I'm going through a stargate. Maybe it's the diet pills. Maybe it's Buddha.

Film is about what you are thinking. It's about what's inside.

The most important healing - realizing who you are. The healing on the outer level is fine, but it's not the essence of healing.

Why should the sons and daughters of God be reluctant to pray, when prayer is the key in the hand of faith to unlock heaven's storehouse, where are treasured the boundless resources of Omnipotence.

Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.

Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.