That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop..

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly..

If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?.

It is not enough to hold the line against the dark. It is your responsibility to lead into the light. People don't like the light--it reveals too muc….

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 con….

I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going th….

When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to ….

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..

Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere..

I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts..

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 ….

People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'.

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve..

Art has an obligation to offend.

Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely..

I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I'm tired.I'm tired of the truth and I'm tired of lying about the truth..

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are..

I write to find out what I'm talking about..

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.

The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in the present tense (if it is a ….

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