If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find 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

The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.

If you want to say it with flowers, remember that a single rose screams in your face: 'I'm cheap!'

I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.

Breathing deeply and releasing fear will help you get to where you want to be.

I don't really have a type of woman.

Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days.

A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip.

I am saying yes to criticism, but no to insults.

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.