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.

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

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

Art has an obligation to offend

There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.

The best was created without sleeping and drinking coca-cola. For what am I talking?For the Future of the computers check out the beginning then check out the "now".

Better be a desperate single with many options than a desperate married with no option.

FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.

In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.

Success doesn’t know these things about cold or early or tired. It just knows if you showed up or not.

People who live in glass houses must reeeeeallly trust their neighbors.

An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

It is far better to live like a lion for a day then to live like a jackal for hundred years.