The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.

I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.

I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them.

If you want to really deeply touch the viewer or the reader, the theater might be the most powerful way to do it.

I feel like that religions generally ask the biggest questions. They may not always have the best answers, but they're the zone of human activity that regularly asks the biggest questions.

Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control.

The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.