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Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
There's nothing as beautiful and empowering in life than a memory.
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life
I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
I'm an American playwright. Tennessee Williams got in all our DNA.
That voice that cries out doesn't have to be a weakling's does it?
I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.
By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process.
For me, playwriting is sharing my experiences, telling my stories.
I can't stand up in front of people. It just fills me with horror.
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.
Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution.
The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity.
How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini?
Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be.
It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom.
When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small.
The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
The idea of a rupture between acts occurs in a number of my plays.
Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.
You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
From suffering that has been/ Decreed no man will ever find escape
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.
More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.
It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.
History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.
You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.
Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest.
Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, To untell the days.
All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.
The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.
Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress
You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.