Everybody wants to go see the big hit [at the theatre]. Not because it's any good. Because it's the big hit and everybody wants to be able to talk about the big hit.

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

I'm praying about it. He knows what I want.

Take it slow. We want to know what’s ahead before what’s ahead knows we’re here.

I see they found out the universe is 80 million years older than we thought. It's also been lying about its weight.

We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.

I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.

Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

From an acting perspective, I would say that you should always try to make your own stuff. Always be ambitious about your own projects and always know better than anyone else what you're good at.

Life can't be cured, but it can be managed.