There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

Barack Obama is president of a superpower and I'm a citizen of a small state.

I am not sure one is capable of reflecting absurdity without having a strong sense of meaning. Absurdity makes sense only against a meaningful background. It is the deeper meaning that is shedding light on the absurdity. There must be a vanish point, a metaphysical horizon if you will where absurdity and meaning merge.

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom and under what circumstances we say it.

Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.

If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.