Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.

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

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

If you can love all who've betrayed you... you can taste sweetness in everything.

You can't look at what's looking. You can't think about that which is prior to thought.

I was always into performing and dancing as a kid and acting was a safe place to have all my feelings, which is good as a child.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

Life's as good as you make it, today we made it good.

Hatred is nearly always honest--rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love.

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.

Its visits, like those of angels, short, and far between.