Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.

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

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

Just as books are read one word at a time, roads are taken one step at a time.

Sometimes you've to be clever than a coyote to out wit the devil.

The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.

The verdict of the Greek people renders the troika a thing of the past for our common European framework.

There's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.

If you're a Christian, Jew or Muslim, you're equally an American. That's the great thing about America, is the right to worship the way you see fit.

Our opponents see an America in which every day is April 15, tax day. Well, we see an America in which every day is the Fourth of July.