Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

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

But finally, once in an age, there is a blink. And in that blink, you can be. And in that blink, I can be.

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning that they may follow strong drink that continue until night till wine inflame them.

I have nothing to hide. I enjoy being myself. I'm not going to change who I am just because it's Halloween.

If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

You hear it every four years, ... Scare the seniors, scare the seniors.

Nature is doing wonderful things for you; what are you doing for the nature?

A huge portion of Trump voters are incredibly pleased with how he's performing. They see what they want to see.

He who pardons easily invites offense.

He started pushing to make birdies and you don't do that when you're down.