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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.
Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.
I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more.
For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.
I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word, / Swaddled with darkness.
When people tell me I'm a prolific writer, it's a nice thing to say. But I think to myself, 'Yeah, but I don't do anything else.'
Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas.
One of the things I think I can do in my lifetime is stop to remind myself that - and keep affirming that - women can sell movies.
Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.
All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.
The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.
The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.
You just have to re-wire your brain when you’re shifting from the stage to the screen, or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point.
When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.
Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.
There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.
I was sent to Naval School when I was young, and it didn't do me any good in any other form, but it made me get up in the morning.
The sensation of flying is incredible, and it's such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation.
When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do.
It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.
You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.
If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.
I'm interested in exploring how an individual maintains a sense of power in a world that tends to make individuals feel powerless.
If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.
The greatness that would make us grave, Is but an empty thing. What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's a king.
If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.
George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.
Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.
When words & manners leave you no space for yourself make very personal very clear & your obstructions will join you or disappear.
We're excited for when Sony greenlights the $50 million film a "Bunch Of Swirling Colors" starring George Clooney and a lava lamp.
A trap screenwriters can fall into is making scripts that are good reads, which doesn't necessarily mean it will make a good film.
Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.
If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people's wrath is as heavy as lead.
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.
How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon?
I would rather work in the theater than anywhere else, and it does seem to be a place where stories can and should be told purely.