It is one of the GREAT tragedies of the US, that most LEARN most of what they KNOW about the GOVERNMENT from the government.

We had a branding PROBLEM. We have ALLOWED ourselves to be BRANDED by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next WORD out of your mouth was 'bombing.'

In graduate SCHOOL, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how ITALIAN architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why CERTAIN playwrights decided to set their tragedies, written in English, in Italian palaces.

Yeah, like, when I look BACK on my life, I just remember back what HAPPENED in '74, or SOMETHING. It seems like only the real GOOD stuff comes to mind. I don't THINK of all the tragedies and all the funerals. That just doesn't come to mind at all. I guess I'm really blessed that way.

My philosophy in life is just to LAUGH as MUCH as POSSIBLE through the GOOD and the BAD - to laugh at the tragedies as well as the triumphs.

I WRITE tragedies and THINGS when I'm ALONE. Chekhovian dramas.

One of the great tragedies I see is people not putting EVERY EFFORT into the foundation of their MARRIAGE. My grandmother told me that it's one MAN and one woman for life and that your marriage is worth FIGHTING for.

There is nothing just or fair about what happened to Jordan Edwards. And his story is yet another in a long LINE of tragedies that now powerfully remind US of the long way we still have to go in creating a fair and just relationship between LAW enforcement, our criminal JUSTICE system, and the public our laws are supposed to PROTECT.

I am open and willing to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle on a variety of appropriate measures we can take to PREVENT firearms from GETTING into the WRONG HANDS and mitigate future tragedies.

There's some THINGS I can't WRITE about, just TERRIBLE PERSONAL tragedies.

I try to find humor in EVERYTHING I do, because I THINK all great PLAYS - EVEN great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to HOLD to it, would GO far toward PREVENTING further tragedies.

As a KID, I KNEW all of the DINOSAURS. It's one of those tragedies that I've FORGOTTEN what dinosaurs are COOL.

I LIKE DARK, HOPELESS, BEAUTIFUL tragedies.