A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.

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

A man who would be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in.

Imagine what your life would be like if you were completely uninhibited by fear, pride, or procrastination. What would you be capable of? Anything.

If you criticize others’ ideas, they will almost never use yours no matter how good they are.

Crafting a plan is easy. Taking action will always prove to be the more difficult path.

Success is not built on what we accomplish for ourselves. Its foundation lies in what we do for others.

The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed.

The place where...knowledge occurs is the present. That which recognizes the present is mind.

The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads an opal canopy. Home-bound, the drifting cloud-crafts rest Where sunset ambers all the west...

I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.

If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved.