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Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa D'Amour, workshopped it.

It takes time to understand the difference between civilian POWs and military POWs. There's an educational process.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. - Atticus Finch

Even the elites in developing countries know nothing about the development of calculus or electromagnetism and why, without these theoretical tools, the modern products of science would have been impossible. Indeed, appreciation and internalization of science cannot occur without the simultaneous development of a rational, modern and egalitarian system of education.

Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.

The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.

I'm a huge fan of stuff like 'Planet Earth' and the American sitcom 'Everybody Loves Raymond.'

Boxing is all about timing. And if you take long periods of inactivity, you will be made to pay the price.

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

Even if an episode is self-contained, the preceding episodes always affect how the audience takes it in.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night - and I'd dream about it being me.

I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper.

I've been dealing with the press for 45 years. You need a very long spoon to sup with them. While you are always grateful, they are like badly trained dogs. They smile and wag and bite your arm off.

We have a very wide range of content, but the brand-newest movies, what's happening with those is a $30 pay-per-view option - not from Netflix but from DirecTV and others - of movies that are in the theater.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

I like to do projects that challenge me, and hopefully in turn challenge the audience, or open your eyes to something you're not aware of.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.