Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.

Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.'

Our thoughts create our reality where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

I feel more comfortable when I'm somebody else, I think. When I'm taking a picture as myself, the whole idea of taking a headshot, to me, feels very false.

There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to be an act of civil disobedience. It's not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as projections of cultural authority. It's painting as insurgency.

I'm just a low-key guy.

It is only through dialogue deep listening and passionate disagreement that we find our way to something larger than a singular and isolated point of view.

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

I have always been a fan of Jim Henson, and I love his Creature Shop creations, the skill of the puppets and the characters he creates.

I find myself working out at hotel gyms quite regularly - just so that I can keep up with my training.

I've been 6'4'' since I was 12. Goofy is somewhere in the lexicon.

When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do.

When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.

We are acknowledging the close personal nature of our 10 years at war and the strong bonds of fidelity that Marines have for one another, especially for those fellow Marines who we have lost.

The hardest diet I was ever on was the one when I was fat. You can only wear fat clothes, you don't feel good, your sex life gets damaged, you don't have energy for anything. It's horrible.

In a media instant, Sarah Palin went from an unknown moose hunter to a mass phenomenon on the precipice of becoming the vice president of the United States.

The world has to save Syria. I mean, this has dramatic implications for the entire region, globally.

Most of us don't think forwarding a racist joke or speaking in an insulting 'comedic' accent is appropriate at the workplace. Unfortunately, for those raised in the toxic culture of conservatism, the sort of mentality that leads government employees to do those things is widespread.

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks.

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

'Psycho' is probably the best known example of a horror film whose exclusive sound was strings, and since then, it's been hard to avoid that. The minute you have strings as your primary voice, the comparisons are always made.

I can't be everything to everyone. Send me your specs.