Literature is the art of making the invisible visible.

Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception.

I said, 'I will build you this incredible, gorgeous, gleaming hotel. I will put people to work in the construction trades and save hotel jobs and the Grand Central area will come around.' So the city made the deal.

The theatre is the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

The poet is the mirror of the world’s sorrow.

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.