I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.

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

It's just a kiss, she mentally swore. But kiss was much too simple a word to call the powerful connection that simply rocked her world.

Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.

Remember, at the end of the day [election] campaigns are always about the candidates.

Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.

Literature wasn't intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws.

We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything.

The most knowledgeable person is not necessarily the person who runs the government, nor the church, nor the business.

Julius Peppers is a beast, man. I dont know how many pounds he outweighs me by... I still try to do things like him to make my game better.

When you have the arrogance, the confidence and you can't cook, then you're only going to look stupid.

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.