Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.

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

Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.

High tech needs to be complemented by high touch.

The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.

Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and not "shortly" is accurate.

Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.

Maybe 90 percent of the time it looks like I'm not having a good time.

The sun cares nothing for illumination.

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.