When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.

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

The ones who hate me the most are the ones who don't scare me.

Can the law get blood out of a stone? I haven't any money.

. . . hated each other so much their feud had become legendary. Half the jokes in the galaxy started with “a vampire and an otrokar walk into a bar….

Money is not only the motivating factor, most of the time powerful positive words do

What I really wanted was the impossible.

To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks. To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do.

You're amazing, just the way you are.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.

There is no excuse not to give two minutes today to intend your tomorrow.