A lot of people are confused by "hello." A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn't be confused by.

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

Everything in this world happens with a purpose. You are born in this world with a purpose, you are chosen by purpose.

He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

When you are down, the only place to go is up. -Pontius Joseph

The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.

It's good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?

They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.

If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, may you not slur your words in such a way that they sound like "cell mate."

Let's take our babies home and abide by the curfew. I want to thank you for understanding that we want to bring peace.