We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way…

- Wallace Shawn

My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite embarrassing, it's qu…

- Wallace Shawn

We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard…

- Wallace Shawn

I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes …

- Wallace Shawn

I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what it's about later. My technique could be co…

- Wallace Shawn

Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?

- Wallace Shawn

Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

- Wallace Shawn

I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.

- Wallace Shawn

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!

- Wallace Shawn