I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.
Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work. - Tony Kushner
Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.
- Tony Kushner
Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic block… - Tony Kushner
Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic block…
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. - Tony Kushner
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.
People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it. - Tony Kushner
People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.
If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and you can't go into the park, you are aware t… - Tony Kushner
If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and you can't go into the park, you are aware t…
Don't be afraid; people are so afraid; don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone...Learn at least this: What you are capable of. Let noth… - Tony Kushner
Don't be afraid; people are so afraid; don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone...Learn at least this: What you are capable of. Let noth…
You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go. - Tony Kushner
You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go.
It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet. - Tony Kushner
It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.
The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches. - Tony Kushner
The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.
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