Death is release, if you've lived all right.

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

My words express my feelings but not more than my heart.

When the morning sun wakes up, the darkness in the valleys looks for a place to hide!

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind.

No deal means a greater chance of more war in the Middle East.

I am happier now than I have ever been.

The true goal of Christian unity is world evangelization.

As a pastor I reinforced my vision over lunches.

Spokes unite in the hub of a wheel.