Tony Kushner

"It can be very hard to accept how disappointing life is, Harper, because that's what it is, and you have to accept it. With faith and time and hard work you reach a point where ... Where the disappointment doesn't hurt as much, and then it gets easy to live with. Quite easy. Which ... Is in its own way a disappointment."

"I just wondered what a thing it would be...If overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or love, had really gone away. Free.It would be...Heartless terror. Yes. Terrible, and...Very great. To shed your skin, every old skin, one by one and then walk away, unemcumbered, into the morning."

"The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs."

"Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution."