Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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.
My object is to save the world, while still leading a pleasant life.
One of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other.
Sometimes when daughters have a bad-girl mother, they rebel and become good girls. They are constantly embarrassed by me!
Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.