To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all my love.

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

But this is how some get lost in the race of life, they spend their lives judging how much they will do or how much they should do based on what everyone else around them is doing.

To some people everything is permitted.

Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.

Feel that the energy of your willpower can easily deflect tension-causing feelings and frustrations that are directed towards you from the outside world.

In a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you.

I don't think there's any equivalency between the way that the Russians conduct themselves and the way the United States does.

To me life is simply an invitation to live.

Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.