As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.

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

You taught me to think, and you put ideas in my head. People read to forget. Books don't change the world, ji. You didn't tell me that. You talked of the dignity of the human spirit to a hijra.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

Nothing embarrassing, but hopefully I can call myself a gentleman because of my father.

Security is a process, not a product.

The difference between us and other people is that their money looks bigger and their troubles smaller.

I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.