I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.

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

The greenest of pastures are right here on earth.

Everything is transient. You must transcend and transform for higher self realization.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.

The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).

For me, as a Christian I will be uncomfortable because in all my teachings and all my learning, biblically, it's not right.

Lafayette saw himself as the protector of royalty; they [the king and his family] considered him its gaoler.