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.

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.

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

Art has an obligation to offend

Natural art is the most amazing form of art there is.

Once upon a time, there was a generation of parents who were certain that Elvis Presley's unashamed hip-swivellingvwas most certainly the end of society.

An absurd thing may drive us crazy, but this would be golden path to reach reality beyond our wisdom and imagination.

The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it

Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'

Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

It is easy to do things for our own families and loved ones, but to give of our substance for the stranger who is in need is the real test of our charity and love for our fellowmen.

For the time being, technologies are colonizing our body through implants. We started with human implants, but research leads us to microtechnological implants.

In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.