Stories aren’t about things. Stories are things.

Like skateboarders, writers live by rejection; like writers, any skater worth his salt must have the single-minded tenacity of a wiener dog.

The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all.

Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.

For the first time in my life I began to realize that it is not evil and brutality, but nearly always weakness, that is to blame for the worst things that happen in this world.

To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality

Eventually everyone has to die, except Elvis.

Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community.

We are all the best versions of ourselves when we have love and acceptance in our lives.

I wanted to have a place and a space, and a building, in which to create a season of work I am here because the idea of a theatrical home is very appealing to me

What we do in public determines our reputation; what we do in private determines our character.

Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around.

As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.

Fhairshon had a son, Who married Noah's daughter, And nearly spoil'd to Flood, By trinking up ta water: Which he would have done, I at least believe it, Had ta mixture peen Only half Glenlivet.