No one will ever follow you down the street if you're carrying a banner that says, "Onward toward mediocrity."

You are pure potential.

The Hokey Pokey. Think about it. At the end of the song, what do we learn? What is it all about?... You put your whole self in!

You don't have permission to disrespect yourself.

You're my best friend in the scene and together we can make sense of what's going on by being Together.

Let's try and create scenes that are about something... About something deeper than this ashtray.

You know what intimacy is? It's into-me-you-see...

Her joyful spirit would bring laughter and happiness to anyone in her life with the same natural ease that a rose blooms and sheds its perfume.

If silence is to be broken, let it be with the majesty of music.

I think you had the GOP down there in North Carolina reaching out to African-American voters and this guy coming on television and using the N-word and saying what Don Yelton said.

I don't find anything interesting about the choices a character faces in major films or theater projects. The characters are just cut-out dolls with the American flag sewn on them.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.

There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.