People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'

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

Consistency in your interest is the actual reason behind every success, and inconsistency is the major cause of failure

The world is drowned in silence, who will tell your story ? Who tells doesn't know you and who knows, cannot say it.

I have insecurities of course, but I don't hang out with anyone who points them out to me.

That moment I felt a bit like crying. I don't really know why. Nana's hand felt so warm that it even warmed my heart.

It matters not how simple the food - a chop, steak or a plain boiled or roast joint, but let it be of good quality and properly cooked, and everyone who partakes of it will enjoy it.

The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.

Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.

But in any situation with long love, I don’t think it ever goes away fully. You just sort of learn where to keep it.

Men are just like unlit lamps: in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around the house.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.