"There are two essentials, two and two only, to have any performance in the world in any medium. One is the audience and two is the author. The rest fills in. The two essentials are someone to have the idea to say it and someone to hear it. Without either one of those two, you have nothing." "I maintain that 90 percent of what you do in this world whether it's bagels you eat, clothes you wear, adults you meet when you're little, plays you go to or are in, 90 percent is horsecrap. Five percent is just godawful and you wish you could forget it, five percent is memorable, so you better enjoy the horsecrap because nine out of ten hours in your life are gonna be spent in horsecrap. So fine, but don't go around giving it first prizes! The first prizes are too valuable -- they're really for only for that five percent -- of people, food, clothing, time, weather, age -- whatever you want to name in your life."