It is not enough ... simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

Trust is fine, but control is better.

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing.

Sometimes you have to get sad before you get happy 'cause otherwise how would you know the difference?

Trees are corrupting our parks. They should be arrested for loitering. For deciduous trees, add littering and indecent exposure to that list of offenses.

Success is a process, not an event.

Say what you wish about media in the Arab world, but say it knowing that no media channel in the world is absolutely free.

Love is the fire that warms our lives with unparalleled joy and divine hope. Love should be our walk and our talk.

I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we're kind of at a standstill.

Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.

The way I look at stories is often from far outside, like a god's point of view, and also very, very subjective.

If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.