“It's only words... unless they're true.”

“Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?”

“Kraus asks the question of Freudian analysis: What would be enough? At what point would talking about ones problems for x hours a week, be sufficient to bring one to a state of normalcy?The genius ...”

“Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the...”

“What is our life: (Pause.) its looking forward or its looking back. And thats our life. Thats it. Where is the moment?”

“All drama is about lies. All drama is about something thats hidden. A drama starts because a situation becomes imbalanced by a lie. The lie may be something we tell each other or something we think...”

“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”