Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.

So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.

The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.

There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.