The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.

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

Prayer is a petition.

We were strong separately, but when we were together, we were impenetrable.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and so is our character.

The error of the past is the success of the future. A mistake is evidence that someone tried to do something.

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

I'm all for dropping lawyers into any war time situation.

Any opportunity to adorn oneself is human, and accessories are an easy way to do it.

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future.