I mean, if a thing works, if a thing is right, respect that, acknowledge it, respect it and hold to it.

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.

Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm in control. But the great excitement is to see what happens if you let the whole thing go. And the dog or the character really runs about, bites everyone in sight, jumps up trees, falls into lakes, gets wet, and you let that happen. That's the excitement of writing plays-to allow the thing to be free but still hold the final leash.

While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same time, it would be ridiculous to propose that what we know merits reverence. What we know merits any one of a number of things, but it stands to reason reverence isn't one of them. In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?