In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that’s much quieter.

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

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

I had a lot of energy when I was eleven and always liked being in front of a camera.

I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it.

I'm still working for the government.

My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.

I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.

Vic Armstrong is, of course, a legend

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.