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“Killing more people won't help matters.”
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“I don't know if I ever would have developed into a good actor, but that got completely scotched when I lost my vocal cord at 14 in the operation. But writing always - writing plays, writing, writing, writing, that was what I wanted to do.”
Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009. 
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“Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.”
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“The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.”
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“I can remember, I think it was 1967, sitting in the First Unitarian Church in Isla Vista, Santa Barbara, and seeing Phil Levine come out on the little stage. He sat on the edge and said, "You know, sometimes it's hard not to hate my country for the way I feel, at times, but I won't let that happen." And then he read, "They Feed They Lion," this incredibly powerful, incantatory poem that was inspired in part by the burning of Detroit in 1967 and the riots that followed.”
Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
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“Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.”
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“Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.”
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“Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.”
