Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

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

If you resolve to give up smoking drinking and loving you don't actually live longer it just seems longer.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.

All things, in all their aspects, consist exclusively of 'souls', that is, of various kinds of subjects, or units of experiencing, with their qualifications, relations, and groupings, or communities.

Finding the hidden dimensions of your life is the way to fulfill your deepest hunger.

What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.

To be loved by God is the highest relationship.

The church is called to be now what the world is called to be ultimately

I have a tendency to make my partner my everything and that is unfair and it doesn't end up working out because you can't rely on that one person to fulfill all of your needs emotionally.

Men looke not at the greatnesse of the evill past, but the greatnesse of the good to follow.