Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

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.

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

Art has an obligation to offend

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

You have to be an Actor to face life not the camera.

Battling wolves today strengthens you for battling lions tomorrow.

Sometimes there is no comfort, only the knowledge that the worst has happened

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

You don't have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.

But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.

God's love is unbounded. It has no limits.

Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.

The biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day.