Arthur Miller said one of my favorite lines ever, that he had the mother say to her two sons about a very unstable father in Death of a Salesman. She said, "Attention must be paid." It's one of the most resonant lines that I think he ever wrote, and I think attention must be paid to the truth.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

This is unbearable how I talk.

In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.

My life exists in an imagined reality.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.