Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.
I was formed by 'The Forsyte Saga' marathon. There was something about seeing all those events telescoped that was unbelievably moving: that sense of time as something that can be tinkered with.
I think I'm a writer, and it's my job. People in other professions are expected to do their jobs all the time. Why shouldn't I?
My usual route is, I do a play at South Coast Rep, then there's time between and I revise it, and then I take it to New York.
The 20s are like the stem cell of human development: the pluripotent moment when any of several outcomes is possible. Decisions and actions during this time have lasting ramifications.
I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.
I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.
Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time.
As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.
Madame de Rosemonde: [referring to the Vicomte de Valmont] What is true of most men is doubly so of him.
Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
Each money-printing exercise brings about unintended consequences. These unintended consequences are higher inflation rates than had no money been printed.
You don't need money to look fabulous. There are so many awesome new designers, so many designers doing collections for mass retailers.
He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.
You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.
The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.
Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.
I don't think there is necessarily a contradiction between being a hegemonic power on the one hand and functioning multilaterally on the other.
In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.
With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.
