The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.
When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.
When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.
I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened.
Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.
You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections.
If there's anything you could point out where I was a little different, it was the fact that I never mentioned winning.
Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release.
If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the use of information.
Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.
If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.
I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.
Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not have been, before.
So many nights I'm up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and feel what I feel.
I knew when I was diagnosed with cancer the only thing I could control was what I ate, what I drank and what I would think.
I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.
In the morning, that moment, when I knew it was you. When I could feel you breathing and we opened our eyes at the exact same time.
Could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.
