"The more power you have, the more responsibility you have."

"The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience, but how he stands at times of controversy and challenge."

"I am not a politician, I am a playwright."

"Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life."

"I really do inhabit a fantastic and mystical world, a world in which I have been able to make a great many things come true."