Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.