One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.

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

He had not been tossed aside by time, but lost in it.

Remove the mask. Let me love the darkness you hide underneath.

An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen but great-ens his life.

Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.

Horror movies, man, the blood entails so much time. And horror movies are not fun; definitely not starting there as a director. Definitely not horror.

The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.

The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.

Virginians! With me! Who will come with me!?