Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.

Make it so obvious even a computer couldn't be confused.

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don't.

When we function from a place of positive energy, the world around us becomes more positive.

I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.

Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide.