Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

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

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

I was trying to help... The more I try to catch up, the farther I fall behind.

The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.

I love driving, but I like driving on a two lane road where you can drive for hours and not see anybody.

I am still reeling with delight at the soaring majesty of Norfolk.

In the interest of not pissing you off anymore tonight, let's not select that particular playlist.

Don't you believe what you read.

Habit is a second nature.

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.