The gift of achievement is not the things you get, but the person you become.
It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.
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.
I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out?
I am not the worst singer.
Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.
Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth).