Caryl Churchill Quotes

People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

You make beauty and it disappears, I love that.

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.

You can't win every week.

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

I'd go without food if I could have a flower.

How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters?

Parties are a cruel kind of fun.

Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white.

Maud: Young women are never happy.Betty: Mother, what a thing to say.Maud: Then when they're older they look back and see that comparatively speaking they were ecstatic.