I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can.

I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.

Tony Kushner

I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.

Jimmy Buffett

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

Sean Connery

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Boris Sokoloff

The less government we have the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other

Benjamin Franklin

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

Phyllis McGinley

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

William Shakespeare

Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

Jonathan Swift

Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.

Friedrich Von Schlegel

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.

Olivier Messiaen

If you appreciate the small things, you're likely to get the big ones.

Jonas Eriksson