"Politicians - well, first of all, they should get rid of nuclear weapons, I think."

“I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.”

Source : "Let Me Down Easy". Interview with Yazmany Arboleda, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2010.

“Death is not my best subject.”

“Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don’t know and have compassion for them at the same time?”

“You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.”

Source : The First Circle ch. 17 (1968)

“Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.”

Source : "Has PETA Gone Too Far With Billboard Featuring Mayor Giuliani?". "Crossfire" with Bill Press and Mary Matalin, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2000.

“It's all been very interesting.”

“Authors we are in danger of accepting as gospel, whereas founders of discursivity provide permeable ideas that we can elaborate upon in a tradition of constructive dialogue.”

“It is important to have determination and optimism and patience. If you lack patience, even when you face some small obstacle, you lose courage. There is a Tibetan saying, "Even if you have failed at something nine times, you have still given it effort nine times." I think that's important. Use your brain to analyze the situation. Do not rush through it, but think. Once you decide what to do about that obstacle, then there's a possibility that you will achieve your goal.”