I don't feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.

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

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

Discovering passion and purpose requires figuring out what works and what doesn't. Mature, successful people establish their on rules. These rules are measured by only one standard: do they work?

Hockey is the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.

Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.

I'd like to fly, but my wings have been so denied.

Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

I went to a tent store. "What kind of tent do you need?" "Circus."

She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

When you're making a movie in 18 days you have to be able to make decisions and have a streamlined reporting structure.