I believe that every human being has an understanding of art. What is separating us is smaller than what is unifying us.

Terms such as obscene are used swiftly in order to protect people from exposure to the truth.

This is something essential to art: reception is never its goal. What counts for me is that my work provides material to reflect upon. Reflection is an activity.

I don't know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation of sliding. But of course we never notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.

It is not so important what deeds we do when times are good, but what good we do in bad times.

"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."

Men are unwise and curiously planned.

I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.

Don't play the way it goes. Play the way it is. And the way it is every time you play it, it's slightly different. Look for something. So that's the challenge not to be bored.

Age - it's the one mountain you can't overcome.

What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows values, or can learn them, and let them decide.

Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.

I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks.