The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork.

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

Take a step towards actualizing the very thing you are persuaded for and do not allow injustice to silence your voice.

It wasn't the same. I'm pretty good at making the best of things, but it wasn't the same.

America has but one main problem -- the character of the men and women it shall produce.

Take out the fortune before you eat the cookie.

Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.

Sincerity does not equal competence.

I have a strong constitution.

Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.

Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.

Meanwhile, life keeps moving forward. The truth is, there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when?