Post 9/11, brown people had this force pushing us together. It's like we're all being looked at with fear and suspicion; we're all being targeted, so how do you support yourself and your communities?
Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that.
I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating.
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles.
Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles.
I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to.
What's great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That's what theatre is about: other people getting you to give your best, and getting everyone else's best out of them.
As a young man, I wooed, unsuccessfully, with Puccini. It's important to get your operas right.
One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.
Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.
Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from another moment of your life, and it really is like you're still there.
The larger your audience, the smaller your vocabulary and range of referents - the fewer your means of expression. You can't rely on the luxury of intimacy.
I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.
Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others.
When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.
You're only as good as your last haircut.
I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened.
That was when I found out that you could talk to them and it was a whole other way to blow your stack, and it's so much fun to perform that you want to do it again and the more you get out of it the better.
A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.
Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.
Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.
I was thinking about that, about what lines you'd be willing to cross if someone took your loved one or child.
Live every day as if it is your last, and you'll be correct sooner than you otherwise would be.
It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
If producing a regular column is living out loud, then keeping a daily blog is living at the top of your lungs. For a couple of months there, I was shrieking like a banshee.
I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.
When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
The older I get, I'm definitely getting pulled towards the West Coast, because it's a different quality of life. New York is great when you're in your early 20s and you're running around and it's really fun, but it's a place for me to get things done.
Perfection is impossible; just strive to do your best.
I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my friend, you're my wife, you're my girlfriend, you're my co-worker. This is your box, and you're not allowed to stray outside of it.
You really don't put a value on your first win, it is priceless no matter where you are.
The one thing an audience always has in common with a comedian is troubles. The Yiddish word for that is tsuris. You're always putting your tsuris on stage whether you like it or not. No one is untroubled, unless they're just, you know, an imbecile.
