"I think that's the great thing, ya' know, that women can do anything that they want now."

“I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.”

“For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.”

“Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.”

Source : David Henry Hwang (1988). “M. Butterfly”, p.49, Dramatists Play Service Inc

“However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.”

“But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything.”

“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.”

“The Fundamental Regulator Paradox ... The task of a regulator is to eliminate variation, but this variation is the ultimate source of information about the quality of its work. Therefore, the better the job a regulator does the less information it gets about how to improve.”

“Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish.”