Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.

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

Wise is the fool who becomes a master at laughter.

How....will I ever truly depict you?You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

If after giving it all that you possibly can, you do lose to the competition, then they really deserve the win.

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

I have a quite feeling of pity for all those who don't know chess; almost like I am sorry for those who never learned to love. Chess, like love and music, has the ability of making people happy.

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

My name is Katniss Everdeen. Why am I not dead? I should be dead.