My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.'

In Chicago, we love our crooks!

Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.

President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'

The liberals in my neighbourhood wouldn't give away Brentwood to the Palestinians, but they want to give away Tel Aviv.

The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you how to write and to direct. The classroom will teach you how to obey, and obedience in the theatre will get you nowhere. It’s a soothing falsity.

Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.