There are only two things to write about: life and death.

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

No one is perfect and we all make mistakes, but not all of us admit to mistakes made.

I opened my eyes really wide and fluttered my eyelashes at him. "I'm sorry, I must've missed your coronation ceremony. Silly me." from Clean Sweep

If you want to attain some heights in your life, you have to walk every minute.

Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing. [Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.]

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

Headline writing is an art form.

I try not to eat too much dairy or gluten.

Money is needed to bring about many good things but when your heart is attached, it destroys you

Do Something Now. If not you, who? If not here, where? If not now, when?

The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.