The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Hardships are hills of mountains, which must be overcome for the highest accomplishments.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

No one ever loved you like him. And no one ever took it away so completely. But it's here. Look around.

Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.

La dernie' re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie' re. The last thing one discovers in composing a work iswhat to put first.

Many comedians - both male and female - do have an "I will never date another comedian" rule.

I'm still Elliott Yamin. I'm still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va.

My clothes are for the international jet set. They are very much for the red carpet.

We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.