You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: the creative act.

Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?

You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.