Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra’s hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.

Jazz to me is a living music. It’s a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

Don’t think your dreams don’t come true, because they do. You’d better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly – one day I am doing the ‘Beaver’ show and I said, ‘This is the show I have always wanted to do.’

Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general – as we all do in our dreams – I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.

I’ve been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

I’ve succeeded beyond my wildest dreams – financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

Tell me about yourself – your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.