I love Superman. I'm a big fan of anyone who can make his living in his underwear.

A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.

We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.

I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialised job they have.

The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

All rhetorical questions are accusations.