The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to totally arbitrary killing on stage, or pointless gunfire, at least it'll catch their attention and keep them awake. Just keep the thing going any way you can.

You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois