All plays are social comment to one extent or another.

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

MmmmmmI like that thing you do with your tongue. What do you call it? Speaking? Yeah, I dig it

The moment the light of your being becomes bright, darkness will melt away to reveal the brightness of your consciousness.

I had one elegantly folded cookie—a short paper nerve baked in an ear.

If the lie is large enough, everyone will believe it.

If it's not true, don't say it; if it's not right, don't do it.

The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.

Meditation is the only means to the harmonious development of the body, mind and soul.

I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.

It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.