People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between Might and Do.

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.