“If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.”

“One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.”

“Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.”

“You can't just skip the boring parts.""Of course I can skip the boring parts.""How do you know they're boring if you don't read them?""I can tell.""Then you can't say you've read the whole play.""I...”

“GUIL: It [Hamlet's madness] really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that sort of thing; intimations of suicide, for...”

“Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then and this is the important bit do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.”

“There is a payoff for examining the divine author's literary style. It will tell you something about Him. Whereas, Jonah's actions are extensively described and laboriously detailed, God's reaction...”

“The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning...”

“This simple accident of falling in love is as beneficial as it is astonishing.”