Controlled hysteria is what's required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But everyone has agony. The difference is that I try to take my agony home and teach it to sing.

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

Amos Oz is one of the finest novelists of this entire period. MY MICHAEL is a beautiful work of great depth and in some indescribable way lingers in the mind as a lyric song to his country's people as much as a moving love story.

Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.

Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.