If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.
New York is not a city to return to in defeat.
Boredom is the keynote of poverty. . . it's dark brown sameness.
A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.
The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment.
There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next.
If you chase the art, you really can't fail because you'll always be able to look at yourself in the mirror. And that's not about making angry decisions, either, it's about always doing the right thing for you, your fans and your art.
The ergometer simulates the physical demands of rowing, packaging the pains with none of the amenities that make it worthwhile.
Are you okay?" she whispers, giggling. Me? Oh sure. You might have to carry me out of here, though. " What happened?" I created a distraction. " I gathered that. " Step stool, encyclopedias, floor. " I see. Well, I can't thank you enough. " Sure you can. Help me flunk enough tests, so I drop out of the 'torian range. " Can't you just tell Abernethy that you have a reputation as a dumbshit to keep up, and you don't want the attention?" Flunking is more fun.
Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications.