The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.

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

Light blooms the brighter in the darkest places.

On the 'Revenge' set, even if they're not showing my feet, I'll still wear my heels because it gets me in the feeling of Ashley Davenport.

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

If you are having the right kind of spiritual fellowship, you will have power with God, and there is no escaping it!

The more you write, the better you will get.

Let us protect with love all that God has given us!

Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?