Life’s too short to not forgive those who hurt us. I trust you to do what’s right. Right by your own heart.…Forgiveness sets you free.

I once feared death. It is said that death begins with the absence of life. And life begins when death is no longer feared. I have stared death in the eye and survived.

Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy.

The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.

At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.

From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.

The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.

The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die.

The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.

Movies will finally reflect the world we live in, not some weird dinosaur reality.

We can look, but we'd better not touch.