I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.
My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.
I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.
You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.
I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.
Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.
