I’m infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life.

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

Don't just follow the line. To be a Star - Shine!

So highly revered was commingle, that the Jews called him "the beauty of the Law".

It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.

I didn't plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can.

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

I hope to take advantage of the Netflix organism and see if there are ways to get in new material and see if there are ways to do deleted scenes.

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

I don’t want to be a person with full hands, resting from dreams, but a person full of dreams unable to rest his hands.