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Nothing's lost forever.
Real love isn't ever ambivalent.
The body is the garden of the soul.
Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.
I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.
I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me.
In some ways [the Internet]'s definitely an enemy.
I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.
Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.
There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.
I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.
Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.
I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die
It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.
Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.
I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.
A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.
The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.
My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.
You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go.
I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.
If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with
One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.
Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.
You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.
As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.
A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament.
You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it.
It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.
The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.
I don't know what will happen to me without you. Only you. Only you love me. Out of everyone in the world.
In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.
I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.
I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort.
I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.
I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of antecedents.
God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.
The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.
People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.
There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.
I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much. Except for Poe.
It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.
Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?
The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.
Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.
The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.
In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.
My back went out and I gained 40 pounds while sweating over 'Perestroika.' It was incredibly hard, the hardest thing I had to do before the screenplay to 'Lincoln.'
Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.