I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much. Except for Poe.

Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.

The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments dismal; it's a zero sum game, and its guarantor of value, its marker is that you pretend you play it solo, preserving the myth that you alone are the wellspring of your creativity.

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