Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.