Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.

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

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.

Honor and profit lie not all in one sack.

Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.

I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.

I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics.

Dear young people, put your talents at the service of the Gospel, with creativity and boundless charity.

The upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows.