"The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore."

-- Susanna Kaysen

“The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.”
“I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.”
“Is such an alliance helpful to us in this day and age? Are we creating a cold war in order to justify NATO?”
“Anything worth having is going to be hard”
“As long as we live beyond our means, we are destined to live beneath our means.”

Source : The Republican Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 9, 2007.
“Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.”
“I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.”
“When you grow up in a place (whether as a child or an adult) you squeeze everything out of it. You need so much when you're young.”

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