A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.

Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.

Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.

He's liked, but he's not well liked.

The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress