Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.

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

God has given every man incomparably great power to reach the highest calling in life.

America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I'd rather be America's enemy.

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

I'm a big thinker, and sometimes I think too much, and my brain can get in the way of myself.

Nothing beats a really rough massage. I really hate a man who goes all limp when he's doing a massage. Who needs a soft massage? Just get in there and rub me hard or don't bother.

I don't like to be recognized on the street or in restaurants, and I don't like the whole celebrity thing.

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.

I'm a curvy girl and that will never change.

That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.