"I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance."

"Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?"

"Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution."

"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."

"Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over."

"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."

"The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform."

"The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones."