I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.
The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.
Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.
All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.
A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.
I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it's Caucasians.
There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.
In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that.
We need to keep our eye on ISIS. That's why I want to have an intelligence surge that protects us here at home, why we have to go after them from the air, on the ground, online, why we have to make sure here at home we don't let terrorists buy weapons.