My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.

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

There are no wrong answers only different perspectives. With that being said, some perspectives are certainly better than others.

While the State exists there can be no freedom when there is freedom there will be no State.

I see myself as mom first. I'm so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me or fall apart around me and at least I wake up with my kids and I'm happy.

My first name was inspired by the character of Aslan, the lion in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.

sometimes the best thing to do is to pretend it didn't happen

But I don't believe in guilt by association.

I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.

Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression

Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success.