Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.

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

If you sweep a woman off of her feet, make sure your character is strong enough to keep her in the air.

Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at.

Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love.

Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading.

I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.

The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.