There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.

I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.

He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.

I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because there are lots of democracies around the world that function better than ours does. It's always been that way. There's some truth to the idea that it's rigged, but there is a way that it's supposed to work that.

I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.