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

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.

You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.

The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.