"I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel we're parking cars or something."

-- David Henry Hwang

#Ideas Quotes #Car Quotes #Theatre Quotes

“I think relationships are very difficult. It's very easy to get swept away with excitement, glamour, and passion. I think the trick is to look for friendship rather than passion.”
“You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.”
“I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met; You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget.”

Source : 'An Interlude'
“I believe that there is but One Thinker in the universe; that my thinking is His thinking, and that every man's thinking is an extension, through God, of every other man's thinking. I therefore think that the greater the exaltation and ecstasy of my thinking, the greater the standards of all man's thinking will be. Each man is thus empowered to uplift all men as each drop of water uplifts the entire ocean.”
“I've got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you're 71 years old. People just think I'm a silly old fool.”
“I don't know what I'm doing. I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm shopping around.”
“Golf is a puzzle without an answer.”
“There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.”

Source : "The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life". Forbes magazine, 1950.

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