We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out.

You can mean more than one. You can mean thousands. I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you. I'll pretend you can hear me. But it's no good, because I know you can't.

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.

Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't let there be air; or Don't be. I suppose you could say that.

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.