We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.

The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.

Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.

Characters on stage, like people in what we refer to as "real life," do not speak to reveal themselves. They do not speak to conceal themselves. They speak to get whatever it is that they want. It is the only reason they speak.

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.