Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

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

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

The importance of momentum in your organization cannot be understated!

It's hard to detect good luck-it looks so much like something you've earned.

I think the best romantic comedies don't have villains.

More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.

The president of the United States, whoever it is, deserves a certain level of reverence and respect just because of the office he holds.

Government sponsors untold waste, criminality and inequality in every sphere of life it touches, giving little or nothing in return.

You become a leader when you decide to be an original and not a copy.

You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.

I love to shut out the world sometimes and hibernate.