"Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose."

"The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal."

"I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed."

"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."

"I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying."

"The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player."

"The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many."

"Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'"