I love bacon so much.

I feel really strongly about immigration because my mom is... from Jamaica. She still has a green card here.

I'm always going to stand up for my beliefs and stand behind them.

As a human being, I do feel like it's my right to be able to stand up for and speak on whatever I want.

My family values are really, really important.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

Nobody can tell me where I can and can't go.

It's in the best interest of the radical left types - best psychological and strategic interest - to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.

A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience.

A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write.

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.

Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.

The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for.

I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.

Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.

You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history.

Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.

You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can't do one of those three things, you ain't going to get any money.

The liberals in my neighbourhood wouldn't give away Brentwood to the Palestinians, but they want to give away Tel Aviv.

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.