School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

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.

Art has an obligation to offend

Just about the worst thing an artist can do is to try and be a nice person.

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

What are the questions you wish to ask?

I have never taken a road trip. Unless you count Los Angeles to Vegas.

We'll run a lot of multiple sets - pro set, twin set, the box set, ... We'll run a lot of option plays and pass the ball more than in the past.

Driving through much of the southern part of the U.S. reminds me of where I grew up in Canada. The trees, homes, sense of community... I love the South.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

Sorry is for the things you've done that you shouldn't have not for things you believe in.

we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.

To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions.