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

Art has an obligation to offend

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

Choosing friends based on how much money they have is like betting on a horse because you like its saddle.

I have five boys in the family, and it's constant competition, sport, humor, and practical jokes.

People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're losing all of our communication skills.

I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.

While everybody else was going mad, we were actually the sanest people in the whole thing.

If you can resolve this transition of [Bashar] Assad, that is absolutely possible, but you have to have a clarity for everybody about the way forward.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.

We all love the first Rocky, but I’m not too sure about the last one.