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

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.

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.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

Audiences are audiences.

'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?

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.