dear god, whose name i do not know. thank you for my life. i forgot... how BIG... thank you. thank you for my life.

Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.

Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.

There are people who...tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it! It's an old tactic of cruel people to kill kindness in the name of virtue.

Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?

I'd like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed.

Where the terror is, you must go.

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. Thats what writing a screenplay is.

Monogamy is like a 40-watt bulb. It works, but its not enough.

I have doubts! I have such doubts!

Where you are today is where you're from tomorrow.

...as long as she was worrying about it, it probably wasn't going to happen. Like some sort of anxiety vaccine. Like watching a pot to make sure it never boiled.

Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.

With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.

Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist!

We live in a competitive society. To pretend that it is not there is ridiculous. That is how the whole planet is set up. If you are not competitive, you do not succeed, you do not survive.

Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

The things you absorb you will ultimately secrete. It's all out there and available for you to enjoy...and be nourished by.