If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.
I am an artist no matter what I do. I live for creativity. I think everyone should. It is the antithesis of being destructive.
People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
I get antsy if a year goes by without doing a play. I don't go to the gym, so this is my way of trying to live longer.
'Raw' is a live show and, as we always say, anything can happen at any given moment at any given time.
That is all that we want, what people want, what people want in New York, in Washington, in Pittsburgh, in any other place in the United States or in Europe. People want to live peacefully. That's what we want.
You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.
Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11.
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
There's something about being in front of a live audience that's fun. It's a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can't get it anywhere else. And I've been doing it since I was 23, so it's part of my being - it's part of my fabric as a person.
I came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here; I couldn't live anywhere else.
I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!
I don't want to live in a small Bronx apartment. I don't want to have three kids that got to share one room.
By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life - we've grown weary and apathetic and jaded... and wounded.
Because gender can be uncomfortable, there are easy ways to close this conversation. Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We do not.
So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
In the apocalypse, I think those average, mediocre folks are the ones who are going to live.
