A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions.

You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

She admired her passion, knowing that passion is by definition excessive.

Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upwardTo what they were before.

Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.

Love sometimes makes people ruthless in a way that not even hatred can.

In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.

If God has called you, do not spend time looking over your shoulder to see who is following you.

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.

Joy is realized as the natural by-product of the passionate pursuit of something other than happiness.