"Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may seem to him to be so; it is a problem of attitude to contemporary society and culture in relation to the basic human problem of learning to be human."

“I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.”

“Every institution is inherently demonic.”

“Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'”

Source : Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.173, Paradise Publishing

“Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing.”

“It is easier to get rid of one's religion than to get rid of one's sins.”

“I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it.”

Source : Lady Gregory (1970). “The Collected Plays: Wonder and the supernatural”

“Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It's still the way I write, actually.”

“To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.