The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!
If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find life.
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.
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 valuable one), and its music -- its special noise -- is always contemporary. The most valuable function of the theater as an art form is to tell us who we are, and the health of the theater is determined by how much of that we want to know.
School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
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.
When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time.
Yes, you can have it all, but not all at the same time. Set your own priorities, trust your gut and follow your heart.
Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.
As long as we see church life as a meeting we’ll miss its reality and its depth. If the truth were told, the Scriptures tell us very little about how the early church met. It tells us volumes about how they shared life together. They didn’t see the church as a meeting or an institution, but as a family living under Father.