Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.

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

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

Our chances of survival were entirely dependent on our ability and willingness to dominate others.

You don't change people's hearts by making them suffer. You harm yourself as well as them.

In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.

Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.

You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close.

Take your time. There's no rush to be good or renowned.

The White House is a bully pulpit.

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.