I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.

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

A beacon of light shining in a dark tunnel leads even the blind to safety

I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment my life changed.

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is.

In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.

We want to go forward, but which way are we facing?

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.

I don't spend time wondering what might be next; I just focus on trying to savor every day.

...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.