If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table.

I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.