A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend.
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
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 have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months.
When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.
White domination is so complete that even American Indian children want to be cowboys. It's as if Jewish children wanted to play Nazis.
You don't inspire your teammates by showing them how amazing you are. You inspire them by showing them how amazing they are.