I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.

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

I think the universe might be sending us a sign.

You can't be born again, but you can change.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

Kids look up to me, and it's really incredible to be in that position.

I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.

If Cargo is a catalyst to spark policy, that would be great. The more we're able to use it as an educational tool, the more it's a building block in youths' minds and peoples' minds to enact policy.

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.

The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens.

Fail early, fail often, in order to succeed sooner.

An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.