Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.

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

As long as we consider failure as an option, success is not going to be the only one choice.

If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the elephants rule, or some other more compassionate species.

Boondocks' is simply the Tagalog word for mountains.

Right then I wasn't a freak. I wasn't an ice queen. I didn't have powers. What I had was a friend comforting me when I needed it most. Right then I was just a normal girl, and Ryan was the superhero.

Shadow turned. Her eyes were wet; she smiled at him wanley. "I'll be she loved you.

Nobody wants to read about your life. Who cares?

I have something else to ask you, to ask every American. I ask you to pray for this great nation.

The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within.

People could not get enough of what they had lost, even if they no longer wanted it.

As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.