"In high school, I was performing "forensics." You take a section of a play and portray all the characters. I even went to camp for forensics."

“Saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue, followed him up to the gates of Graceland.”

Source : Song: Walking In Memphis, Album: Marc Cohn, 1991

“Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.”

“The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.”

“You aren't sick & unhappy only alive & stuck with it.”

“I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.”

Source : "Mae Whitman on TMNT, blending into Arrested Development, and acting with Coach Taylor". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2013.

“The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.”

“The idea that the Lord our God is not a personage of tabernacle is entirely a mistaken notion. He was once a man. Brother Kimball quoted a saying of Joseph the Prophet, that he would not worship a God who had not a Father; and I do not know that he would if be had not a mother; the one would be as absurd as the other. If he had a Father, he was made in his likeness. And if he is our Father we are made after his image and likeness.”

“I think that's one of the reasons it's nice to leave out a lot; it can become a lot more personal to people if there is room for them to put their own experiential time track on it.”