We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.

The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.

In England, if you commit a crime, the police don't have a gun and you don't have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say 'Stop, or I'll say stop again.'

You have an internal critic, an internal drive that says, 'OK, you can do more.' Maybe that's what keeps you going.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.