I love Kabuki, Noh theater and bunraku.

With actors, I have very close, intense working relationships with actors in theater.

I loved working in the theater.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.

I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.

Theater is hard.

My No. 1 artistic inspiration in theater is Brian Stokes Mitchell.

'The Wire' was a combination of great TV and great theater.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

Journalism as theater is what TV news is.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

I don't think that the theater should necessarily pay.

I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

I had pinned all my hopes on the theater.

The Public Theater requires one to be very public, and writing requires one to be very private.

Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages.

Musical theater is one of my passions.