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I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think that's the way I was thinking. But my actual ...more

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Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

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I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

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It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, h...more

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For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what i...more

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When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather t...more

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He could not put down a word without suspecting that it might be the wrong one and that if he held back for another day the intermediate experience wo...more

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If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather than leave a white hole in the page. And ...more

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I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.

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We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

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Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

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GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our movement is contained withi...more

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Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

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Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light. Dante reserved a place in his Inferno for those who wilfully live in sadness - sullen in the sweet...more

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WILDE: Oh — Bosie! (He weeps.) I have to go back to him, you know. Robbie will be furious but it can't be helped. The betrayal of one's friends is a b...more