Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.
I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones.
Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.
One may not give one's soul to a devil of hate - and remain forever scatheless.
Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.
Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.
I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.
I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.
A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.
What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.
Follow your intuition, listening to your dreams, your inner voice to guide you.
Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture.
If one is of the masculine gender, a poodle is the insignia of one's deviation.
The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase.
If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.
I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
There's nothing the matter with Hollywood that a good earthquake couldn't cure.
To those who ask if I have read their book, I reply: I have not yet read Homer.
Yes, I shot my wife because I thought she was Bigfoot, but I'm from New Jersey.
The devil isn't made by what Mommy says or what Daddy says. The devil is there.
That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,-by deeds, not years.
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
I wrote 'Buried Child' in a trailer at an old ranch house we had in California.
In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.
Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together.
All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.
Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.
While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
I'm not that taken with Freudian perspectives. They seem to be overcomplicated.