All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.

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

How do you have to live, I wondered, to be in harmony with what you honestly think?

As man becomes more technologically advanced, his barbarity becomes even more lethal

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music.

Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.

Gratitude is the heart of Friendship.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's favorite, the john.

I'm only me when I'm with you.

I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.