Quotes About Author

There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.

I've seen some terrible plays, but I generally enjoy myself. One play I walked out of, I have a tremendous respect for the author. That was Robert Wilson, something called 'Network,' which consisted of Wilson sitting on a bunk, the dialogue of the movie 'Network' looped in while a chair on a rope went up and down.

As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated by the presidency of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University.

I read Spider-Man, and that's how I knew about Wilson Fisk.

The person whose work introduced me to the craft was Lorraine Hansberry. The person who taught me to love the craft was Tennessee Williams. The person who really taught me the power of the craft was August Wilson, and the person who taught me the political heft of the craft was Arthur Miller.

I was with Lanford Wilson in Philadelphia watching a play of his when the call came from Hollywood. 'Norman Lear wants to do 'Baltimore' on television,' Lanford said. 'What do you think?'

I like a kind of quiet place - Wimbledon Village, for example.

I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get.

Wimbledon is a special place for me in so many ways and I feel privileged to have been such a big part of it over the years.

Lunch? You gotta be kidding. Lunch is for wimps.

In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.'

I'm not here to win a popularity contest.

Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, most people look incredibly bright, as if they are probably off to win a Nobel prize.

President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize. What we need is only peace.

It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.

An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.

The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.

I love those books like 'Gone with the Wind,' the huge, sweeping family sagas.

Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni.

I think that there is a changing wind. There are black conservatives out there, and their voices need to be heard.

Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.

When I started out, it was around the whole 9/11 - Islamophobia was just sort of hitting a second wind. Obviously that informed a lot of my humor, and it influenced a lot of what I was talking about on stage because it was extremely relevant at the time.

Any debut novel is usually a case of spitting into the wind - or, just maybe, casting your bread upon the waters. Without an established audience in place, first-time authors have to hope for resonant word of mouth and a receptive reviewer or three.

I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.