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?

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 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

Art has an obligation to offend

Each year, more responsibility and freedom (they are companions) must be given to the child so that the final release in early adulthood is merely a small, final release of authority.

What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.

To see someone you love in so much pain—especially emotional pain that can’t be remedied—was the worst form of torture.

I enjoy going to the Y. I take all the fitness classes that my dad takes; that's sort of our bonding - anything athletic, anything sports related.

There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!

Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

My philosophy has always been, you don't put your name in front of a movie.

No rash decisions. No big commitments. Each day as it comes.

Every person I've ever met always thinks their parents are weird.