It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.

Paradise is only for those who have already been there.

To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.

I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as a draft. I wrote him a bitter letter: How can you call this a draft? I don't do drafts! By now I've done 18, and its turning, in the rehearsal room, into a 19th.

All politicians know that every 'temporary' political initiative promised as a short-term poultice stays on the books forever.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.