It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support myself as a playwright at this point. I don’t think anybody does.

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

Isn't it wonderful when people do that, when you put all your faith in their being selfish and self -centered and not giving a damn and it turns out, all that time, you were wrong?

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.

And the Earth had no name. The gods know themselves and have no need of names. It is man who names all things, even gods.

Clearly Mr. Drkh has had a long career of being the weirdest person in any given room, but he's about to go down in flames.

I don't care," said Seth. "I would have done it. I would have sold my soul for you. You and me...I told you. Something's always going to keep us near each other...even if we aren't together.

Your conscience is no defense against you sins; however, it can unfortunately deny you the pleasure of enjoying them.

Teen Wolf has more heart then Buffy

It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.