I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

Her black is beautiful, his society is ugly.

Habeeb Akande

Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.

Christopher Durang

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Peter De Vries

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

James Madison

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

Eric Hoffer

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.

Gerry Adams

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

George Eliot

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.

Judge Learned Hand

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud.

George MacDonald

Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.

Peter Berg