The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.

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

Gun Control: A measure to ensure that guns always point in one direction.

A house may draw visitors but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Sometimes I think change is a good thing.

Martin Luther dreamed up Protestantism while sitting on the toilet at Wittenburg monastery, and we know what a big movement that became.

Dyson's Law: Do ask; don't lie.

No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.

There is no protection against slander.

Always focus on your effort, instead of the results of that effort.

Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones.

I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.