"A man has a choice.. I chose.. the impossible!"

“No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.”

“Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.”

“I think being raised by a single mother put me on the outside, and I would watch my mothers married friends and think, Why does she put him down in public? or, Why is he so rude to her? It seemed to me that there were very few marriages where the couple were genuinely in a supportive, loving partnership.”

“Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.”

“What are these voices outside love's open door, make us throw off our contentment, and beg for something more?”

“I really think I'm at the top of my game right now, and I have the tools that I've learned over the years, so I feel really good about what I'm doing onstage now.”

“I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows”

“Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly.”