416 quotes found
“The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.”
“Oh, come on! Nobody's favorite color is BROWN!”
“The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.”
“Drama entered my home last week, but I ushered it to the door and tossed it to the curb.”
“He lay still, his bloodshot eyes staring blankly before him, and drifted into dreams of his problems, compulsively living out dialogues, summing up emotional scenes with his mother, Dot, and his fr...”
“We all say and do things we regret, but its never to late to change, apologize and become a better person”
“If you want to know the truth, he says, leaning forward like hes getting ready to tell a really good story, it has to do with Kelsey. And the biggest lie of all.And thats when I realize the thing a...”
“What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.”
“It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.”
“I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen t...”
“The future was something I had resolutely ignored. If didn't put my full attention to the day at hand, I was afraid that the impenetrable dark on the horizon would engulf me”
“Estragon: You see, you feel worse when I'm with you. I feel better alone, too.Vladmir: Then why do you always come crawling back?Estragon: I don't know.”
“There is no God but God, and his name is William Shakespeare.”
“Dead parents are gruesome, yes, but anyone whos anyone in childrens literature has either been orphaned or abandoned; well-adjusted kids from stable two-parent homes dont go on hero quests.”
“A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you're willing at any moment during a fight to say, 'This means nothing. I love you, let's forget abou...”
“If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced my through years ago.”
“I know when my life is over my writings will live on, perhaps in a story or maybe a sweet love song. You see, I do not write for glory or to get anything for free. I just sit down and I write, beca...”
“Emotions tend to entwine Earthlings together.”
“It is amazing how sharing of ones intimate details can make human beings forget the formality of a relationship and bring them closer together.”
“And now the bride begins to move. Little mechanical doll, clinging to her husbands arm, climbing into the carriage. Her white silk stocking, her elegant shoe.”
