Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?

- John Patrick Shanley

I'd like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed.

- John Patrick Shanley

Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.

- John Patrick Shanley

People ask me if I believe in things: in God, in astrology, and I say, absolutely! I believe in everything! And I believe in its opposite. Like the p…

- John Patrick Shanley

Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks …

- John Patrick Shanley

I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in ord…

- John Patrick Shanley

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

- John Patrick Shanley

Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.

- John Patrick Shanley

Where the terror is, you must go.

- John Patrick Shanley