You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

War is capitalism with the gloves off.

Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring death home to anyone- it doesn't catch them unawares and start the whisper in their skulls that says- 'One day you are going to die.

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.

We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.