"I think of each movie as a puzzle. The fun is in solving the puzzle: finding a musical identity for the picture, however that can be summed up."

“The au pair was bug-eyed. "What happened back there?" "It's not our fault!" Dan babbled. "Those guys are crazy! They're like mini-Darth Vaders without the mask!" "They're Benedictine monks!" Nellie exclaimed. "They're men of peace! Most of them are under vows of silence!" "Yeah, well, not anymore," Dan told her. "They cursed us out pretty good. I don't know the language, but some things you don't have to translate.”

“I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.”

Source : Wole Soyinka, Biodun Jeyifo (2001). “Conversations with Wole Soyinka”, p.58, Univ. Press of Mississippi

“Trust me--with women worth the being won, The softest lover ever best succeeds.”

“. . . I do think that deep down, a lot of my work is about people trying to make reasonable accommodations of situations that are insane or absurd. . . . At first I thought the events had power in themselves, that I would just present them. I really wasn't aware of the things that finally became central issues to me - the shifting alliances, the way people hardly even know they've shifted. That part of [A QUESTION OF MERCY] is very familiar to me in terms of my other plays.”

“Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person.”

“This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.”

“It's never too early to panic.”

Source : "Jennifer Grey takes top spot in "Dancing with Stars," as Bristol Palin shimmies and Margaret Cho plods along". voices.washingtonpost.com. September 21, 2010.

“When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.”