Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.

Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.

The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

it was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that. father said, not looking up from the news that was being displayed on the table while he ate it would've been wasted if you hadn't

As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.