Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and thats a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.

A huge number of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. You have a people that don't know anything about the rest of the world, and you have leaders who lie to them, lie to them, and lie to them.

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.