The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.
Tony KushnerIf you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with
Tony KushnerI'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.
Tony KushnerYou learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it.
Tony KushnerTheatre for a New Audience is one of America's most admirable and exciting theatre companites...some of the best acted and directed work to be found on American stages, engaging with the canon of world dramatic literature in a vigorous way.
Tony KushnerYou become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments dismal; it's a zero sum game, and its guarantor of value, its marker is that you pretend you play it solo, preserving the myth that you alone are the wellspring of your creativity.
Tony Kushner