The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

Unlike film, live theater is an anti-naturalistic medium in which character is mainly illuminated through speech and movement.

I love playing instruments that I don't know how to play or am not familiar with. I like the idea of danger and innocence that comes from it. As an artist, I feel I should be able to do something with anything I get my hands on. The music becomes minimalist because of my limited knowledge.

I'm not sure if a writer should talk about themes. Themes arrive out of the deeper structure and concerns, but to me, the main thing is getting it down right, writing about specific characters in specific predicaments, and finding a way to be true to the story itself, not only in the first burst of draft but in the revision, too.