I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.

Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling for words on the tongue and in the mind.

Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone.

And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.

Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.