Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.

To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

Sometimes I hate you, sometimes I hate myself, but always I miss you

It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about

I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

Now I see -- we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us.

Yellow Face marks my summation of multiculturalism.

The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself

I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel we're parking cars or something.

Time flies when you’re being stupid.

A nation discovers its truest dignity when it cherishes the dignity of those from whom it has not heard for a very long time.

In all change well looked into the germinal good out-vails the apparent ill.

Devotion is diligence without assurance

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.

To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.

The greatest thing is not to believe in Santa Claus; it is to be Santa Claus.

A distinctly ordinary player of extraordinary dirtiness.

Why was it the hot mean girls always ran in packs, like hyenas?

Bryan Robson, well, he does what he does and his future is in the future

The only place that's holier than St. Andrews is Westminster Abbey.