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I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
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You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
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All a poet can do today is warn.
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If only the right person would have to leave, everyone else would be able to stay in the country.
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Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them.
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You can't be happy that fire cooks your food and be mad it burns your fingertips.
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I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.
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There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.
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My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer - that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all.
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When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how to say it, that its worth saying, and that maybe someone will come along for the ride.
