"I think it's better to feel good than to look good."

“If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.”

Source : Susan Howe (1993). “The Birth-mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History”, p.47, Wesleyan University Press

“I kept my arms around Joi and my face buried deep in her hair while I waited for Peter Pan to slip through the window. I thought I needed him to tell me what I should do. But he never showed up. He left me alone with a girl who smelled of jasmine and cocoa butter. And before I fell asleep, I finally realized that was more than enough.”

“The Broadway schedule is so tough, so relentless there was almost no time to enjoy all the stuff.”

Source : "It's ALMOST, MAINE for John Cariani!!!". Interview with TJ Fitzgerald, www.broadwayworld.com. January 4, 2006.

“A woman sitting by herself is not waiting for you.”

“I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.”

“I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive.”

“My eccentricity became direction.”

“He who for love hath undergone The worst that can befall, Is happier thousandfold than one Who never loved at all.”