Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.
All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods.
The Eyes are the window to your soul
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
There are three people in yourself - who people think you are, who you think you are, and who you really are.
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.
No Daimon gets out of here alive. (They hit the invisible wall and rebounded off it. ) Man. It really makes you feel for the bug on the windshield, doesn’t it? (Acheron)
There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black Americans, about black American culture, about the black experience in America. I write about the black experience of men, or I write about black folks. That's who I am. In the same manner that Chekhov wrote about the Russians, I write about blacks. I couldn't do anything else. I wouldn't do anything else.
If the F. A. A. was around when the Wright Brothers were testing their aircraft, they would never have been able to make their first flight at Kitty Hawk.