A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music.

performance is an act of faith.

Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.

I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.