"My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took."

“Say no to parking lots!”

“I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.”

“Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?”

Source : John Patrick Shanley (1985). “Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays”, p.23, Dramatists Play Service Inc

“I'm kind of like a dumb model.”

“We seek fulfillment in our lives through heart connection with others. This is our soul's essence of joy, which spontaneously pulses through us, longing to share itself with another.”

“One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things-in the way that if one sets out to pick up a 100-pound bag of rice, one would be advised to start with a five-pound bag, then 10 pounds, then 20 pounds, and so forth, until one builds up enough muscle to lift the 100-pound bag. It's the same way with courage. You do small courageous things that require some mental and spiritual exertion.”

“I am the Angel of the Sun Whose flaming wheels began to run When God's almighty breath Said to the darkness and the Night, Let there be light! and there was light.”

“Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s.”