Our contention has always been that Shakespeare is our greatest living author. If he can survive a season on Broadway, he must be.

We may pretend we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

My real pleasure is that 4 times a week 1,800 people are standing up and shouting on Broadway for an author who died hundreds of years ago.

I don't believe you should interfere with any classic for reasons of religious or political correctness.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

If we are poor learners, our teaching will be ineffective.

When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.

Finding that core of truth within yourself... That truth that knows and trusts that All Is Well, and that chooses Love... Is the greatest spiritual attainment you can ever make.

The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.

There's a lot of other artists doing things outside of that depth that I enjoy - that music that I can actually have fun to, and not be in depth and think about, then I appreciate that.

Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.