I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort.

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.

I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there's only the political, and the decoys and the ploys to maneuver around the inescapable battle of politics.

I don't know what will happen to me without you. Only you. Only you love me. Out of everyone in the world.

Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.

I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support myself as a playwright at this point. I don’t think anybody does.